Annotation:Boganuadh (The)
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BOGANUADH, THE. AKA - "Bogannach (The)." AKA and see "Kiss the Lass Ye Like the Best (1)," "New Bob (The)." Scottish, Reel. B Minor (Gow, MacDonald): A Minor (McGlashan). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow): AABB (MacDonald): ABCD (McGlashan). McGlashan's reel, "Boganuadh" (New Bob), appears under the "New Bob (The)" title in Kohler's , and as "Kiss the Lass Ye Like the Best (1)" in MacDonald's Skye Collection (1883). The modern group Silly Wizard recorded the tune as "New Shilling (The)."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Gow (Complete Repository), Part 1, 1799; p. 37 (appears as "The Boganuadh or the New Bob"). Laybourn (Köhler's Violin Repository, Book 2), 1881-1885; p. 111 (as "New Bob Reel"). MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 62. McGlashan (A Collection of Reels), c. 1786; p. 41.
Recorded sources: Shanachie 79016, Silly Wizard - "So Many Partings" (as "New Shilling").