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'''FAVORITE DRAM, THE'''. AKA - "Ho rò mo bhoban an dràm." Scottish, Air or Slip Jig (9/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'CC'. Fraser appends to the title: "A Highland Bumpkin." This tune "is a well known and popular bacchanalian Highland melody; but Culduthel's set of the words and music are so superior to any the editor has heard, that it is rather fortunate his edition of the air happens to be in print before an imperfect standard came forward" (Fraser). The melody also appears in the 1820 music manuscript collection of piper Robert Millar, of the "Forfar Reg. and Piper to the Aberdeen Highland Society." | '''FAVORITE DRAM, THE'''. AKA - "[[Ho rò mo bhoban an dràm]]," "[[My Favorite Dram]]." Scottish, Air or Slip Jig (9/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'CC'. Fraser appends to the title: "A Highland Bumpkin." This tune "is a well known and popular bacchanalian Highland melody; but Culduthel's set of the words and music are so superior to any the editor has heard, that it is rather fortunate his edition of the air happens to be in print before an imperfect standard came forward" (Fraser). The melody also appears in the 1820 music manuscript collection of piper Robert Millar, of the "Forfar Reg. and Piper to the Aberdeen Highland Society." | ||
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FAVORITE DRAM, THE. AKA - "Ho rò mo bhoban an dràm," "My Favorite Dram." Scottish, Air or Slip Jig (9/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'CC'. Fraser appends to the title: "A Highland Bumpkin." This tune "is a well known and popular bacchanalian Highland melody; but Culduthel's set of the words and music are so superior to any the editor has heard, that it is rather fortunate his edition of the air happens to be in print before an imperfect standard came forward" (Fraser). The melody also appears in the 1820 music manuscript collection of piper Robert Millar, of the "Forfar Reg. and Piper to the Aberdeen Highland Society."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816/1874; No. 164, p. 67.
Recorded sources: