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'''MORAG'S WEDDING.''' Canadian, Scottish; Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). Dunlay and Greenberg believe the tune may have been a pipe strathspey as they find it it Barry Shears' '''Cape Breton Collection of Bagpipe Music''', taken from the Angus J. MacNeil MS, a manuscript of pipe tunes from around 1900 found in Cape Breton. The ancestral tune is the air to the song "[['Si Morag a rinn a' bhanais]] ([[Morag had a wedding]]), which is also used as a strathspey and schottische. | '''MORAG'S WEDDING.''' Canadian, Scottish; Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). Dunlay and Greenberg believe the tune may have been a pipe strathspey as they find it it Barry Shears' '''Cape Breton Collection of Bagpipe Music''', taken from the Angus J. MacNeil MS, a manuscript of pipe tunes from around 1900 found in Cape Breton. The ancestral tune is the air to the song "[['Si Morag a rinn a' bhanais]] ([[Morag had a wedding]]), which is also used as a strathspey and schottische. The title Dunlay & Greenberg employed comes from sheet music written by (Old-World) Scottish fiddler Angus Grant for the Boston Scottish Fiddle Club. | ||
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MORAG'S WEDDING. Canadian, Scottish; Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). Dunlay and Greenberg believe the tune may have been a pipe strathspey as they find it it Barry Shears' Cape Breton Collection of Bagpipe Music, taken from the Angus J. MacNeil MS, a manuscript of pipe tunes from around 1900 found in Cape Breton. The ancestral tune is the air to the song "'Si Morag a rinn a' bhanais (Morag had a wedding), which is also used as a strathspey and schottische. The title Dunlay & Greenberg employed comes from sheet music written by (Old-World) Scottish fiddler Angus Grant for the Boston Scottish Fiddle Club.
Source for notated version: Donald MacLellan, learned from his father, Ronald MacLellan [Dunaly & Greenberg].
Printed sources: Dunlay & Greenberg (Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton), 1996; p. 34.
Recorded sources: Lochshore Records, Tannas - "Rù-Rà" (1995). Rounder Records, Donald MacLellan - "The Dusky Meadow" (2003).
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings [1]