Annotation:Ranting Highlandman (1) (The)
X:1 T:Ranting Highland Man [1] M:C L:1/8 R:Country Dance B:John Walsh - Caledonian Country Dances (1731, p. 8) N:"London. Printed for and sold by J. Walsh, Music Printer and Instrument maker N:to his Majesty, at ye Harp & Hoboy in Catherine Street the Strand." Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G d2|G/G/G dG BAGB|A/A/A _FA _fAAd|G/G/G dG BAGB|A/A/A (fe/f/) gG G2:| |:ef|gd ec BcdB|A/A/A _FA _fA Ae/^f/|gdec BcdB|A/A/A (Tfe/f/) gG G2:|]
RANTING HIGHLAND MAN [1], THE. AKA - “Ranting Highlander (The),” “Ranting Highlandman.” AKA and see "O an ye were dead guidman," "White Cockade (1) (The)," "Highland Laddie (3) (The)," "Fiddler's Morris," "Duke of Buccleugh's Tune (The)." Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian (Gow, Young): G Mixolydian (Walsh). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow, Lowe): AABB (Walsh, Young): AABB' (Kerr). The tune appears as “A Ranting Highland Man” in the Drummond Castle Manuscript (in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle), inscribed "A Collection of Country Dances written for the use of his Grace the Duke of Perth by Dav. Young, 1734." Edinburgh fiddler and writing master Young also included it in his MacFarlane Manuscript (c. 1741). It also can be found contained in James Aird's 1782 collection (p. 1), and in the [James] Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768). A derivative of the tune was later titled "The White Cockade" and has enjoyed considerable fame under that title.
