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|f_track=Roslin Castle.mp3
|f_track=Morpeth Rant.mp3
|f_pdf=Roslin Castle.pdf
|f_pdf=Morpeth Rant.pdf
|f_artwork=Roslin.jpg
|f_artwork=Shield.jpg
|f_tune_name=Roslin Castle
|f_tune_name=Morpeth Rant
|f_track_title=Roslin_Castle
|f_track_title=Morpeth_Rant_(1)
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|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/robmackillop Rob MacKillop]
|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/edric-ellis Edric Ellis]
|f_notes= Roslin Castle, Midlothian.
|f_notes= William Shield (1748–1829).
|f_caption=The tune was the melody most often associated with funerals during the Revolution, and notes that legend has it that it was played by Scottish bagpipers stationed in New York at the time, in honor of the castle at Roslyn, Midlothian, Scotland.
|f_caption=The Morpeth Rant was the name of a dance that has been performed for over almost two centuries, and numerous tunes and tune variants were played in accompaniment to it over many years; thus there are a number of tunes called "Morpeth Rant" or "Old Morpeth Rant" that have varying degrees of similarity.
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/robmackillop/20-roslin-castle Soundcloud]  
|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/edric-ellis/morpeth-rant Soundcloud]  
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|f_article=[[Roslin_Castle | '''Roslin Castle''']]
|f_article=[[Morpeth_Rant_(1) | '''Morpeth Rant''']]


Rosyln Castle does in fact exist in Angus, Scotland, and has since the early 14th century (c. 1304), when it was built by Sir William St. Clair soon after the Battle of Rosslyn, when, as part of the Scottish War of Independence, the English army of Edward I was decimated by the Scots.  
The composition is often attributed to William Shield (1748–1829), a popular 18th century musician and composer originally from Swalwell, near Gateshead, Northumberland. However, as Barry Callaghan (2007) and others have pointed out, Shield often appropriated traditional or folk melodies, and "Morpeth Rant" may not be original to him.  


It is a castle of the rock and waterfall, lying high above the north bank of the River Esk a few miles south-west of Edinburgh, and features a small but magnificent chapel founded in 1446 by the Earl of Orkney and Roslin.  
The town of Morpeth [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpeth,_Northumberland] is in Northumberland, a market center on the River Wansbeck serving the surrounding rural areas and the villages of the Northumbrian coalfield (Graham Dixon). It evolved around a Norman fortress called Morpeth Castle, one of several guarding the east coast routes to Scotland.


Added to through the years, it survived two fires but was ultimately destroyed by Cromwell's troops in 1650. The heyday of the edifice was in the 14th and 15th centuries, where it has been likened to a 'Camelot' of the era.  
...


Neil (1991) remarks "It is on record that one of the princesses of the castle had 75 ladies-in-waiting and 53 of them were also members of the nobility, all of whom were beautifully dressed in gowns of velvet and silk and who also wore gold and other jewels.  
It was one of the "missing tunes" from William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian manuscript.  


When this princess traveled to her house in Edinburgh, she was accompanied by 200 men on horseback and, if at night, by a further 80 carrying torches.  
The older form of the tune can be found in the music manuscript collections of C.J. Surtees (Tyneside, 1819), Joshua Jackson (north Yorkshire, 1798), Rev. Robert Harrison (Brampton, Cumbria, c. 1815, as "[[Princess of Wales' Hornpipe]]"), John Moore (Shropshire, 1830, as "[[New Sailor's Hornpipe]]") and in a manuscript by an unknown hand in the Vaughn Williams Memorial Library (as "[[West's Hornpipe]]" with an added eight bars).
 
The tune and several variation sets was published by the Edinburgh music publishing firm of Nathaniel Gow and William Shepherd in a volume entitled '''A Collection of Entirely Original Strathspey Reels, Marches, Quick Steps &c.''', "by Ladies resident in a remote part of the Highlands of Scotland, as corrected by Nath. Gow."
 
Unfortunately, the composers names are not given.  The Leeds antiquarian Frank Kidson (1854–1926) penciled a note in his copy of the volume that the composers were, or included, “the Misses Whyte,” and modern researcher Charles Gore thinks “the Misses Whyte” may possibly be a Miss White and a Miss Brocky, of Morayshire, east Highlands.


There is also the legend that the castle is haunted by the "Sleeping Lady" who guards a vast treasure. If awakened by the sound of a trumpet, to be heard in the lower apartments, she will appear and reveal the treasure, whereupon the castle would rise from its ruins to its former glory."
   
   
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Revision as of 10:53, 1 September 2023



The Morpeth Rant was the name of a dance that has been performed for over almost two centuries, and numerous tunes and tune variants were played in accompaniment to it over many years; thus there are a number of tunes called "Morpeth Rant" or "Old Morpeth Rant" that have varying degrees of similarity.
Morpeth Rant

Played by: Edric Ellis
Source: Soundcloud
Image: William Shield (1748–1829).

Morpeth Rant

The composition is often attributed to William Shield (1748–1829), a popular 18th century musician and composer originally from Swalwell, near Gateshead, Northumberland. However, as Barry Callaghan (2007) and others have pointed out, Shield often appropriated traditional or folk melodies, and "Morpeth Rant" may not be original to him.

The town of Morpeth [1] is in Northumberland, a market center on the River Wansbeck serving the surrounding rural areas and the villages of the Northumbrian coalfield (Graham Dixon). It evolved around a Norman fortress called Morpeth Castle, one of several guarding the east coast routes to Scotland.

...

It was one of the "missing tunes" from William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian manuscript.

The older form of the tune can be found in the music manuscript collections of C.J. Surtees (Tyneside, 1819), Joshua Jackson (north Yorkshire, 1798), Rev. Robert Harrison (Brampton, Cumbria, c. 1815, as "Princess of Wales' Hornpipe"), John Moore (Shropshire, 1830, as "New Sailor's Hornpipe") and in a manuscript by an unknown hand in the Vaughn Williams Memorial Library (as "West's Hornpipe" with an added eight bars).

The tune and several variation sets was published by the Edinburgh music publishing firm of Nathaniel Gow and William Shepherd in a volume entitled A Collection of Entirely Original Strathspey Reels, Marches, Quick Steps &c., "by Ladies resident in a remote part of the Highlands of Scotland, as corrected by Nath. Gow."

Unfortunately, the composers names are not given. The Leeds antiquarian Frank Kidson (1854–1926) penciled a note in his copy of the volume that the composers were, or included, “the Misses Whyte,” and modern researcher Charles Gore thinks “the Misses Whyte” may possibly be a Miss White and a Miss Brocky, of Morayshire, east Highlands.

...more at: Morpeth Rant - full Score(s) and Annotations

X:5 T:Morpeth Rant [1] S:Petrie's Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c. Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 6/11/04 N:Petrie's Second Collection, page 17 L:1/8 M:C R:Reel K:G V:1 clef=treble name="5." [V:1](D/E/F)|G2DC B,G,B,D|ECEG FDFA|BGcA dBAG|FGAB A2 GF| G2DC B,G,B,D|ECEG FDFA|Bedc BAGF|[B,2D2G2][B,2D2G2][B,2D2G2]::ef| gdBG FAce|dBAG {G}F2 (ED)|cAcA BGBG|FGAF D2 (D=F)| ECEG cBAG|FDFA dcBA|Bgfe dcBA|[B,2D2G2][B,2D2G2][B,2D2G2]:|]


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