Annotation:Marchioness of Tullibardine (The)

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MARCHIONESS OF TULLIBARDINE. AKA - "The Marchioness of Tullybardine." AKA and see "Burra Isle War Dance (The)." Scottish, Shetland; Pipe March. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Skinner): AABC (MacDonald/Skye): AABBCCDD (Perlman): AABBCCDD' (Cranford/Holland). The Marchioness of Tullibardine is the title bestowed upon the wife of the eldest son of the Duke of Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland. Originally composed by Alexander Duff as a pipe march, although Cape Breton fiddlers sometimes play it as a reel, after the setting the Inverness Serenaders recorded on 78RPM disc (Cranford). The tune is played in the Shetlands as the accompaniment to the Burra Isle War Dance [1], a solo tap dance, and became a reel called "[[Burra Boys War Dance (The)" or "Burra Isle War Dance (The)."

Source for notated version: "From Miss F. Morison's Collection" (MacDonald/Skye); Dan McPhee (1920-1994, bred in Elmira, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; late of Brantford, Ontario) [Perlman].

Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 7, p. 3. Logan's Collection of Highalnd Bagpipe Music, Book 2, c. 1902; No. 39, p. 24. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 179. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 94. Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 41 (includes variation sets).

Recorded sources: Beltona BL1857, William (Will) Powrie (1932). HMV B3245 30-2005 BR 2632 II triangle (78 RPM), Pipe Major William Ross (1929). Rounder Records 7057, Jerry Holland - "Parlor Music" (2005).

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [2]
Hear the march played by Pipe Major William "Willie" Ross at Rare Tunes [3] [4] (followed by "Highland Harry" (Strathspey) and the reel "Loch Carron").
Hear accordion player Will Powrie's 1932 recording at Rare Tunes [5] (followed by "93rd's Farewell to Edinburgh").