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'''CARLIN, IS YOUR DAUGHTER READY?''' AKA and see "[[Bob o' | '''CARLIN, IS YOUR DAUGHTER READY?''' AKA and see "[[Bob o' Dooley (The)]]," "[[Jenny Cameron's Rant]]." AKA - "[[Port Nan Con]]." Scottish, Strathspey. A Mixolydian (Athole, Johnson): D Mixolydian (Mackintosh). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A ‘carlin’ is a Scots word meaning an old woman. There are several melodies with this title. One "Carle is Your Daughter Ready?" appears in David Rutherford's '''Compleat Collection of 200 country Dances, vol. 2''' (London, 1760), and a tune by that name appears in the 1790 music manuscript collection of American musician Edward Murphy (Newport, R.I.?). There was also a song by the title: | ||
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Revision as of 17:31, 12 February 2012
Tune properties and standard notation
CARLIN, IS YOUR DAUGHTER READY? AKA and see "Bob o' Dooley (The)," "Jenny Cameron's Rant." AKA - "Port Nan Con." Scottish, Strathspey. A Mixolydian (Athole, Johnson): D Mixolydian (Mackintosh). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A ‘carlin’ is a Scots word meaning an old woman. There are several melodies with this title. One "Carle is Your Daughter Ready?" appears in David Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 country Dances, vol. 2 (London, 1760), and a tune by that name appears in the 1790 music manuscript collection of American musician Edward Murphy (Newport, R.I.?). There was also a song by the title:
I will buy a pound of woo',
I will wash't and mak a plaidy,
I'm guan ower the muir to woo',
Carlin, is your daughter ready?
Northumbrian musician William Vickers included a version as "Jenny Cameron's Rant" in his 1770 music manuscript collection.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. 1, 1782; No. 24, p. 9. Johnson (The Kitchen Musician's No. 10: Airs & Melodies of Scotland's Past), vol. 10, 1992 (revised 2001); p. 3. Mackintosh, vol. 3, 1796; p. 39. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 14.
Recorded sources: Queltic Q-104, Ten Strike - "Neuantics."