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|f_annotation='''DRUNKEN WIVES OF FOCHABERS, THE'''. Scottish, Strathspey. Scottish, Highlands. G Dorian (Campbell): A Minor (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Aird): AABCCDE. A companion piece to "Drunken Wives of Carlisle," written in the latter 18th century, this time commenting on a northeast Scottish Highland town's women. Fochabers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fochabers] lies near the River Spey in the county of Moray, not far from Elgin, and is most famous to fiddlers as the home of Scots fiddler-composer William Marshall. It was a planned village, begun in 1776 by Alexander Gordon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gordon,_4th_Duke_of_Gordon] (1743-1827), 4th Duke of Gordon (who was strathspey composer [[biography:William Marshall]]'s employer and patron). The following Scottish folk rhyme mentions the title (from Walter Gregor's '''Folk-lore of the North-East of Scotland''', 1881, Chapter 18, "Place Rhymes": | |||
'''DRUNKEN WIVES OF FOCHABERS, THE'''. Scottish, Strathspey. Scottish, Highlands. G Dorian (Campbell): A Minor (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Aird): AABCCDE. A companion piece to "Drunken Wives of Carlisle," written in the latter 18th century, this time commenting on a northeast Scottish Highland town's women. Fochabers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fochabers] lies near the River Spey in the county of Moray, not far from Elgin, and is most famous to fiddlers as the home of Scots fiddler-composer William Marshall. It was a planned village, begun in 1776 by Alexander Gordon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gordon,_4th_Duke_of_Gordon] (1743-1827), 4th Duke of Gordon (who was strathspey composer [[biography:William Marshall]]'s employer and patron). The following Scottish folk rhyme mentions the title (from Walter Gregor's '''Folk-lore of the North-East of Scotland''', 1881, Chapter 18, "Place Rhymes": | |||
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''Aw sing a sang, aw ming a mang,''<br> | ''Aw sing a sang, aw ming a mang,''<br> | ||
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''Is a' rinnin wid.''<br> | ''Is a' rinnin wid.''<br> | ||
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The tune appears as a country dance in the '''Drummond Castle Manuscript''', in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle; it is inscribed "A Collection of Country Dances written for the use of his Grace the Duke of Perth by Dav. Young, 1734." It was also entered (set as a reel in the fife-friendly key of B minor) into the music copybook (No. 824) [https://buttreymilitarysocialtunes1800.wordpress.com/melodies/] of John Buttery (1784-1854), a fifer with the 37th Regiment, British army, who served from 1797-1814 and who late in life emigrated to Canada. Buttery's manuscript collection has also been identified as belonging to John Fife <ref>Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm</ref>, with a suggested date of 1780. Fife was a family name, like Buttery, identified with the manuscript. County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon [[biography:James Goodman]] entered it in his own large mid-19th century music manuscript collection (vol. iii, p. 166) under the title “Drunken Wives of Lochaber [sic]" in a section of Scottish tunes. | The tune appears as a country dance in the '''Drummond Castle Manuscript''', in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle; it is inscribed "A Collection of Country Dances written for the use of his Grace the Duke of Perth by Dav. Young, 1734." It was also entered (set as a reel in the fife-friendly key of B minor) into the music copybook (No. 824) [https://buttreymilitarysocialtunes1800.wordpress.com/melodies/] of John Buttery (1784-1854), a fifer with the 37th Regiment, British army, who served from 1797-1814 and who late in life emigrated to Canada. Buttery's manuscript collection has also been identified as belonging to John Fife <ref>Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm</ref>, with a suggested date of 1780. Fife was a family name, like Buttery, identified with the manuscript. County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon [[biography:James Goodman]] entered it in his own large mid-19th century music manuscript collection (vol. iii, p. 166) under the title “Drunken Wives of Lochaber [sic]" in a section of Scottish tunes. | ||
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|f_printed_sources=Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 6'''), 1803; p. 4. Joshua Campbell ('''A Collection of New Reels & Highland Strathspeys'''), Glasgow, 1789; p. 22. Carlin ('''The Gow Collection'''), 1986; No. 36. Gow ('''The First Collection of Niel Gow's Reels'''), 1784 (revised 1801); p. 9. Johnson ('''A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter 18th Century'''), 1998; p. 3. Stewart-Robertson ('''The Athole Collection'''), 1884; p. 199.|f_recorded_sources= | |||
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DRUNKEN WIVES OF FOCHABERS, THE. Scottish, Strathspey. Scottish, Highlands. G Dorian (Campbell): A Minor (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Aird): AABCCDE. A companion piece to "Drunken Wives of Carlisle," written in the latter 18th century, this time commenting on a northeast Scottish Highland town's women. Fochabers [1] lies near the River Spey in the county of Moray, not far from Elgin, and is most famous to fiddlers as the home of Scots fiddler-composer William Marshall. It was a planned village, begun in 1776 by Alexander Gordon [2] (1743-1827), 4th Duke of Gordon (who was strathspey composer biography:William Marshall's employer and patron). The following Scottish folk rhyme mentions the title (from Walter Gregor's Folk-lore of the North-East of Scotland, 1881, Chapter 18, "Place Rhymes":
Aw sing a sang, aw ming a mang,
A cyarlin an a kid;
The drunken wives of Fochabers
Is a' rinnin wid.
The tune appears as a country dance in the Drummond Castle Manuscript, in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle; it is inscribed "A Collection of Country Dances written for the use of his Grace the Duke of Perth by Dav. Young, 1734." It was also entered (set as a reel in the fife-friendly key of B minor) into the music copybook (No. 824) [3] of John Buttery (1784-1854), a fifer with the 37th Regiment, British army, who served from 1797-1814 and who late in life emigrated to Canada. Buttery's manuscript collection has also been identified as belonging to John Fife [1], with a suggested date of 1780. Fife was a family name, like Buttery, identified with the manuscript. County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon biography:James Goodman entered it in his own large mid-19th century music manuscript collection (vol. iii, p. 166) under the title “Drunken Wives of Lochaber [sic]" in a section of Scottish tunes.
- ↑ Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm