Annotation:Heights of Alma (1) (The): Difference between revisions

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HEIGHTS OF ALMA. AKA - "Alma (The)." AKA and see "Rakes of Mallow (The)." Scottish, Old-Time (?); Quickstep March. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Well-known as the Irish tune "Rakes of Mallow"--the "Heights of Alma" title is perhaps a corruption of "Rakes of Mallow." It is a standard in Great Highland Bagpipe repertory, the "Heights" title named for the first pitched battle of the Crimean War. Curiously, it appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kerr (Caledonian Collection), p. 3.

Recorded sources: Bob Smith's Ideal Band, Better than an Orchestra" (1977).

Tune properties and standard notation

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-'''HEIGHTS OF ALMA'''. AKA - "[[Alma (The)]]." AKA and see "[[Rakes of Mallow (The)]]." Scottish, Old-Time (?); Quickstep March. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Well-known as the Irish tune "Rakes of Mallow." The title of this tune, a standard in pipe repertory, comes from the first pitched battle of the Crimean War. Curiously, it appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.
+'''HEIGHTS OF ALMA'''. AKA - "[[Alma (The)]]." AKA and see "[[Rakes of Mallow (The)]]." Scottish, Old-Time (?); Quickstep March. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Well-known as the Irish tune "Rakes of Mallow"--the "Heights of Alma" title is perhaps a corruption of "Rakes of Mallow." It is a standard in Great Highland Bagpipe repertory, the "Heights" title named for the first pitched battle of the Crimean War. Curiously, it appears in a list of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954.
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