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'''MONTGOMERIE'S RANT.''' Scottish, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by Lord Eglintoune. The dance instructions, but not the music for "Montgomerie's Rant" (clearly marked a 'Strathspey Reele'), appear in the '''Menzies Manuscript''' ("The Register of Dances at Castle Menzies" [pronounced ''Mingis''), 1749, in the Atholl Collection of the Sandeman Library, Perth. It seems to be the earliest allusion to the strathspey as a class of instrumental music or dance, states Emmerson (1971). Today it is traditional to play the tune "[[Lady Montgomerie's | '''MONTGOMERIE'S RANT.''' Scottish, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by Lord Eglintoune. The dance instructions, but not the music for "Montgomerie's Rant" (clearly marked a 'Strathspey Reele'), appear in the '''Menzies Manuscript''' ("The Register of Dances at Castle Menzies" [pronounced ''Mingis''), 1749, in the Atholl Collection of the Sandeman Library, Perth. It seems to be the earliest allusion to the strathspey as a class of instrumental music or dance, states Emmerson (1971). Today it is traditional to play the tune "[[Lady Montgomerie's Reel]]" for the beginning of the dance "Montgomerie's Rant," not a little because the tune "Montgomerie's Rant" set in B Flat is notoriously difficult to play. | ||
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MONTGOMERIE'S RANT. Scottish, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by Lord Eglintoune. The dance instructions, but not the music for "Montgomerie's Rant" (clearly marked a 'Strathspey Reele'), appear in the Menzies Manuscript ("The Register of Dances at Castle Menzies" [pronounced Mingis), 1749, in the Atholl Collection of the Sandeman Library, Perth. It seems to be the earliest allusion to the strathspey as a class of instrumental music or dance, states Emmerson (1971). Today it is traditional to play the tune "Lady Montgomerie's Reel" for the beginning of the dance "Montgomerie's Rant," not a little because the tune "Montgomerie's Rant" set in B Flat is notoriously difficult to play.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:
Recorded sources: Beltona 6142 (78 RPM), George F. Davis & Annie Shand. HMV C-3843 (78 RPM), The Scottish Country Dance Players (1948). Viva W103, Sean McGuire - "Irish Jigs and Reels" (c. 1960's, a reissue of "Sean Maguire Plays," the first recording of McGuire that Josephine Keegan accompanied on piano).
See also listing at:
See the dance performed on youtube.com [1]
Hear the Davis/Shand recording at Rare Tunes [2]