Tunes 41-50

Examples of Music Notation
Complete Listing (titles only)

Titles link to descriptions-of and links-to GIFs of typeset music
ABCs links are also provided for some tunes

Welcome Owen Diack ... (standard notation)

Is a reel in A major composed by David Greenberg. It was recorded on Kinloch's Fantasy.

Willie Fraser's Strathspey ... (standard notation)

One of Donald Angus Beaton's most popular strathspeys. It was first recorded by Dan Joe MacInnis in the '60s and was recently been recorded by both Donald Angus' son Kinnon on Saturday Night Lively, and by Natalie MacMaster on My Roots are Showing

Spark's Rant (standard notation)

This is Hamish Moore's arrangement of a previously untitled traditional pipe reel as played on his CD Stepping on a Bridge

Mortgage Burn (standard notation)

An infectious new key-A reel composed by Gordon MacLean (a piano player from Cape Breton). This one is guaranteeded to become popular at sessions around the world ...

 abcs.

The Cuckoo Fleadh

A recently composed Irish jig made for an annual festival in Kinvara Co. Galway.

 abcs.

Sandy is My Darling

An ever popular A minor 18th century Scottish reel. Associated with Donald MacLellan and Alex Francis MacKay it has recently been recorded by both Dougie MacDonald and David Greenberg.

Isla Lasses

A B minor reel from the Alexander Walker Collection. Popular in Cape Breton, it has been recorded by both David Greenberg and by Carl MacKenzie.

The Skylark

A very popular Irish reel composed by James Morrison in the 1930s.

The Lass O'Pettie Mill

A lovely key F march arranged in a Cape Breton style by David Greenberg ... based on a setting from Adam Craig in the 1730s.

Johnny Sullivan

A traditional E minor reel from Cape Breton. First recorded on 78 disc by Bill Lamey in the '50s, the title appeared in the 60s on a Five MacDonald Fiddlers lp. More recently David Greenberg recorded it on Bach Meets Cape Breton.