Patrick McDonald Collection - ABC

Subject: Patrick McDonald Collection - ABC
From: Harry Rivers
Date: 05 May 22 - 03:45 AM

Does anyone know if the Patrick McDonald Collection (A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs - 1784) has been ABC'd?

If so, where can I find it?

All the best
Harry

Subject: RE: Patrick McDonald Collection - ABC
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 May 22 - 04:00 AM

Well, The Session (click) has four airs from the Patrick McDonald Collection.

Subject: RE: Patrick McDonald Collection - ABC
From: Harry Rivers
Date: 05 May 22 - 04:06 AM

Hi Joe,

Yes, the Session has a few and there are others scattered around the internet (such as, Traditional Tune Archive) but I was hoping to find the whole collection to explore some of the more unfamiliar tunes.

I might be reduced to buying the tune book!

Harry

Subject: RE: Patrick McDonald Collection - ABC
From: GUEST
Date: 05 May 22 - 05:46 AM

£18.00 from "Scotlandsmusic.com" based on Skye. Please support a Scottish music business - there are very few of them left.

Subject: RE: Patrick McDonald Collection - ABC
From: GUEST
Date: 11 May 22 - 12:53 AM

Available free here Patrick McDonald - A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs so £18 seems a little pricey?

Subject: RE: Patrick McDonald Collection - ABC
From: Harry Rivers
Date: 11 May 22 - 03:35 AM

Thank you "GUEST" but I would still be interested in the ABC if it's been done.

Subject: RE: Patrick McDonald Collection - ABC
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 11 May 22 - 01:02 PM

Thank you for that link, Guest. I already had a photocopy from an original in a private collection, but it's great to get it in digital, page-printable form too. Cheers!

I also bought the Taigh na Teud published edition, which includes notes and comments as well as a preface, by the piper and singer Allan Macdonald. The music is clearly transcribed, on high-quality paper, and considering the work that went into this project and the escalating costs of print production, I imagine most of that retail price gets gobbled up in expenses. I've always been very glad to have this modern volume alongside the historical one.

And yes, please support small businesses as much as you can.

Subject: RE: Patrick McDonald Collection - ABC
From: GUEST
Date: 13 May 22 - 03:54 AM

Very noble to support small businesses, we're all in trouble at the moment.

When I've learned the culinery skills that enable me to make a nutritious meal for 30p, be sure, I'll be spreading all my excess cash as widely as possible.

Subject: RE: Patrick McDonald Collection - ABC
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 13 May 22 - 05:44 AM

In view of the post-Brexit hassles and added expenses that have caused many small UK businesses to stop exporting, thus losing revenue, this might be worth mentioning here:

If you live in the Republic of Ireland (as I do) and want to buy goods from Britain, but the seller no longer ships to Europe because it's become uneconomical, there's a solution called Address Pal. This is a service that anyone here can sign up to, for free, which enables us to give the retailer a UK address (a postal depot in Northamptonshire or somewhere). They then send the item there, at normal internal rates, and at regular intervals the Irish post office comes over to collect everything, processes all the Brexit paperwork & tax/duty, and charges you by credit card (there's also a per-delivery fee for this service but it's not much). Once that's done, it's delivered to your door. All you have to do is type and click.

This is more expensive than it used to be for sure, but it's a god-send when you want something that can only be obtained from Britain but the vendors don't export. I have to say that, well before Brexit actually hit, Royal Mail and An Post really got their acts together and co-operated. Anyway, for whoever's interested, more info can be found here:

https://addresspal.anpost.ie

PS: I forgot to mention above that the modern published edition of the McDonald collection also includes an alphabetical and regional index, which is extremely useful to have.