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'''NIEL GOW'S STYLE''' ("Stoile Neill Ghobha" or "Staoileach Neill Ghobha"). Scottish, Strathspey. B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Hardie): AAB (Fraser): AABB (Alburger). Composed by Captain Simon Fraser. This tune "is merely Niel Gow's sprightly style imitated by the editor, in which his friends are pleased to say he has made a happy effort" (Fraser). Perhaps not--Collinson (1966) calls the tune a "rather poor parody" of its inspirer. | '''NIEL GOW'S STYLE''' ("Stoile Neill Ghobha" or "Staoileach Neill Ghobha"). Scottish, Strathspey. B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Hardie): AAB (Fraser): AABB (Alburger). Composed by Captain Simon Fraser. This tune "is merely Niel Gow's sprightly style imitated by the editor, in which his friends are pleased to say he has made a happy effort" (Fraser). Perhaps not--Collinson (1966) calls the tune a "rather poor parody" of its inspirer. David Baptie ('''Musical Scotland''') notes that Mr. Troup of Ballater, whom he reckoned an arbiter of Scottish traditional music, listed it among the best of the strathspeys in Fraser's collection. | ||
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal> Sandy MacIntyre - "The Sandy MacIntyre Collection: Cape Breton Fiddle (Steeped and Served)" (2010). | ''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal> Sandy MacIntyre - "The Sandy MacIntyre Collection: Cape Breton Fiddle (Steeped and Served)" (2010). MacGregor, Brechin & O' hEadhra - "Sonas" (2009).</font> | ||
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See also listing at:<br> | |||
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t2043.html]<br> | |||
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NIEL GOW'S STYLE ("Stoile Neill Ghobha" or "Staoileach Neill Ghobha"). Scottish, Strathspey. B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Hardie): AAB (Fraser): AABB (Alburger). Composed by Captain Simon Fraser. This tune "is merely Niel Gow's sprightly style imitated by the editor, in which his friends are pleased to say he has made a happy effort" (Fraser). Perhaps not--Collinson (1966) calls the tune a "rather poor parody" of its inspirer. David Baptie (Musical Scotland) notes that Mr. Troup of Ballater, whom he reckoned an arbiter of Scottish traditional music, listed it among the best of the strathspeys in Fraser's collection.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 99, p. 164. Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 149, 60. Hardie (Caledonian Companion), 1992; p. 91.
Recorded sources: Sandy MacIntyre - "The Sandy MacIntyre Collection: Cape Breton Fiddle (Steeped and Served)" (2010). MacGregor, Brechin & O' hEadhra - "Sonas" (2009).
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t2043.html]