mrs.mac leod of rathspey

Subject: mrs.mac leod of rathspey
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Date: 27 Feb 00 - 09:52 PM

Subject: RE: mrs.mac leod of rathspey
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Feb 00 - 09:58 PM

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Subject: RE: mrs.mac leod of rathspey
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 27 Feb 00 - 10:46 PM

Would that be the Scottish reel Miss McLeod of Raasay?  If you go to "JC's ABC Tune Finder",  Here  and type in "miss mcleod", you'll get a whole bunch of references; ABC format, GIF, MIDI etc. "miss macleod" will get you a few Irish versions. It also turns up as an American tune, Have You Ever Seen The Devil Uncle Joe (and other names.)  A very useful resource; bookmark it!

Malcolm

Subject: RE: mrs.mac leod of rathspey
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 27 Feb 00 - 11:03 PM

Oh, I should have said don't type in the inverted commas!

Malcolm

Subject: RE: mrs.mac leod of rathspey
From: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 02:57 AM

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.