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HEMAN DUBH (The Black Rock). AKA - "He mandu 's truagh nach digeadh." Scottish, Waulking Air (2/4 time). G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). This Scots-Gaelic worksong is from the Hebrides Islands in northern Scotland. It is a orain-luaidh or "waulking song", the work, primarily by women, involving shrinking wool for cloth with the songs an aid to the labor.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: McDonald ( 1784.

Recorded sources: Rounder 3067, Alan Stivell - "Renaissance of the Celtic Harp" (1982). Rounder 3038, Pierre Bensusan - "Musiques" (1979).




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