Cumha Iarla Wigton

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 Theme code Index    11L3L5L 6L123
 Also known as    Lament for the Earl of Wigton
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Scotland
 Genre/Style    Pipe, Scottish
 Meter/Rhythm    Pibroch
 Key/Tonic of    G
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    
 History    
 Structure    AABBCCDDEE
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:David Johnson
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 55, pp. 132-133
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1983
 Artist    Biography:Bonnie Rideout
 Title of recording    Scotland`s Fiddle Piobaireachd vol. 1
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    Tulloch TM504
 Year recorded    2009
 Media    
 Score   ()   


CUMHA IARLA WIGTON (Lament for the Earl of Wigton). Scottish, Pibroch. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEE. The first and last strains are in duple time, the middle three in triple. The air appeared in Donald Dow's Ancient Scots Music (1776), although Johnson (1983) dates it on stylistic terms to c. 1720, and thinks it may have originally been composed for the harp. The Earl was probably the third Earl of Wigton who died in 1665, according to Bruford.

Printed source: Johnson ("'Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century"'), 1983; No. 55, pp. 132-133.'

Recorded sources: Ann Heymann - "Cruit go nÓr." Alison Kinnaird - "The Silver String."


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