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'''MANGISTER VOE.''' AKA - "Mangaster Voe." Shetland, March (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by the late Shetland fiddler, composer, collector and teacher Tom Anderson (1910-1991). A ''voe'' in Shetland is the name for a sea inlet, and Mangister Voe is located on the west side of the north Shetland Mainland. As a march it is sometimes used as a vehicle for the ceilidh dance called Gay Gordons. | '''MANGISTER VOE.''' AKA - "Mangaster Voe." Shetland, March (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by the late Shetland fiddler, composer, collector and teacher Tom Anderson [http://www.shetland-music.com/prominent_artists/artists_of_the_past/dr_tom_anderson_%281910-1991%29/] (1910-1991). A ''voe'' in Shetland is the derived from the Norse name for a sea inlet, and Mangister Voe is located on the west side of the north Shetland Mainland, not far from where Anderson was born. As a march it is sometimes used as a vehicle for the ceilidh dance called Gay Gordons. | ||
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Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t4452.html]<br> | Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t4452.html]<br> | ||
Hear the march played by Robert Bairnson at Tobar an Dualchais [http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/play/50888;jsessionid=B510A9FD4B7EAB64F5674BDB86A60A0D] [http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/50888/5;jsessionid=70A1B291F4131943096910BFF28B6541] (followed by "[[Headlands (The)]]").<br> | |||
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MANGISTER VOE. AKA - "Mangaster Voe." Shetland, March (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by the late Shetland fiddler, composer, collector and teacher Tom Anderson [1] (1910-1991). A voe in Shetland is the derived from the Norse name for a sea inlet, and Mangister Voe is located on the west side of the north Shetland Mainland, not far from where Anderson was born. As a march it is sometimes used as a vehicle for the ceilidh dance called Gay Gordons.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 350.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [2]
Hear the march played by Robert Bairnson at Tobar an Dualchais [3] [4] (followed by "Headlands (The)").