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Thread #18655   Message #186053
Posted By: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring
28-Feb-00 - 02:57 AM
Thread Name: mrs.mac leod of rathspey
Subject: RE: mrs.mac leod of rathspey
The original (and to me correct) title is "Mrs. MacLeod of Raasay, often found as "Mrs. McLeod" and (usually Irish, but the general way in America) "Miss McLeod"--in O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903), 263 (#1418; in the truncated Klassen edition, p. 134), it's "Miss Mcleod's Reel, with the two strains in reverse order. [They should go d d' lsld' m mr m etc. followed by drmf s mr m mr m etc.] Attributed by some to Sir Alex. Macdonald. In Niel Gow's Fifth Collection, 1809, "communicated" to Nathaniel Gow by Mr MacLeod of Raasay as "an original Isle of Skye Reel". Well-known as a puirt-a-beul (mouth music) tune, i.e. with nonsensical Gaelic words. (It's been attrib. to MacLeod of Raasay himself, BTW. Raasay is a wee island between Skye and the Scottish mainland.