Annotation:Wedding March from Unst

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WEDDING MARCH FROM UNST. AKA - "Unst Bridal March/Unst Wedding March." Shetland, March (irregular time). G March (Brody): A Major (Martin). Standard (Brody) or AEae (Martin) tunings (fiddle). AAB. With this tune the fiddler led the wedding couple from the church to the bride's house for the party, accompanied in the lead by a ‘gunman’ who shot a rifle at intervals to frighten evil spirits and insure luck to the gathering. Wedding marches were a common Scandinavian practice, imported to the Shetlands during the Scandinavian colonization period, and Christine Martin (2002) says the march is sometimes still played in Norway.

Source for notated version: Boys of the Lough (Ireland/Shetland) [Brody].

Printed sources: Anderson (Haand Me Doon da Fiddle), 1979; Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; p. 287. Martin (Traditional Scottish Fiddling), 2002; p. 97.

Recorded sources: Front Hall FHR 021, John McCutcheon - "Barefoot Boy with Boots On" (1981. Learned from fiddler Aly Bain). Great Meadow Music GMM 2002, Rodney Miller & David Surette – “New Leaf” (2000). Philo 2019, Anderson and Bain - "The Silver Bow." Shanachie 79002, "The Boys of the Lough" (1973). Trailer 2086 - "Boys of the Lough."



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