Crònan na Linne Mhuilich

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Theme code Index	5122 111H6
Also known as	Reel (6), Sound of Mull (The)
Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland, Canada
Genre/Style	Cape Breton/PEI, Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Dorian
Time signature	4/4
History	CANADA(Maritimes/English)
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:James Stewart-Robinson
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Athole Collection (The)
Tune and/or Page number	p. 45
Year of publication/Date of MS	1884
Artist	Biography:Alasdair Fraser & Tony McManus
Title of recording	Return to Kintail
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Culburnie 113
Year recorded
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CRÒNAN NA LINNE MHUILICH (The Sound of Mull). AKA and see "Reel (6)." Scottish, Reel. A Dorian (Stewart-Robertson): B Minor (Shears). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Barry Shears says a similar sounding reel can be found in the Edinburgh Collection, Part 5 (c. 1910). His Cape Breton setting is from the music manuscript of piper Captain Angus J. MacNeil, of Gillis Point, Cape Breton, who compiled his work around 1915. According to Shears (1986), MacNeil was an officer-piper with the 94th Regiment, Victoria Battalion, organized for home defense during World War I. His unit had the distinction of being the only British Empire unit with over 80% of its officers and enlisted being Gaelic speakers! There is also a slow air called "Sound of Mull (2)" (Laoidh Chaluim Chille). The Sound of Mull is a the name of the waterway that separates the Island of Mull from the west Scottish mainland, and is the location of numerous shipwrecks, making it a favorite site for recreational divers in modern times.

The tune can be found as an untitled reel in George Farquhar Graham's Celtic Melodies, Being a Collection of Original Slow Highland Airs, Pipe-Reels, and Cainntearachd, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, c. 1830, No. 13, p. 8).

Printed sources: Shears (Gathering of the Clans Collection, vol. 1), 1986; p. 50 (pipe setting). Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 45.

Recorded sources: Culburnie 113, Alasdair Fraser & Tony McManus - "Return to Kintail." Dorian DOR-90190, Chris Norman, Alasdiar Fraser (et al) - "Beauty of the North." Jackie Dunn - "Dunn to a 'T'." Glen Graham & Amy Graham - "Step Outside."

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]

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T:Crònan na Linne Mhuilich
T:Sound of Mull
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L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Stewart-Robertson - The Athole Collection (1884)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:Amin
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