S5E20 Lament of a Druid and William Litten's Manuscript With Guest Music from David Barrett

Tunes: Litten: Prince of Wales Minuet, The Goose’s Minuet, Kissing and Flirting, Kissing and Drinking, The Royal Hunt, They Royal Review, St. Catherine’s Lane at Five, Duke Gordon’s Reel, Cotillion. Fox: Lament of a Druid Neal: I’m asleep and Don’t waken me Set from Dave Barret: Red Haired Boy, and Paddy’s Leather Breeches. Piobaireachd: The Vaunting Special Thanks to David Barrett for sending in a track from his Starting to See Album, To pick up a copy to support Blinded Veterans of America you can see it on Band Camp: https://visionpiping.bandcamp.com/album/starting-to-see Episode art is of The Bombay Castle, one of the ships that Litten Sailed with as part of the East India Fleet in 1800. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bombay_Castle_(1782) Mail Coach Tunes 1900 (1792) Lament of A Druid: From Charlotte Milligan-Fox https://www.google.com/books/edition/Journal_of_the_Irish_Folk_Song_Society_L/0-o2AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA16&printsec=frontcover 1724: Neal’s Setting for Ta me ma Chulla na doushe me (I am Asleep and Don’t waken me) The Fascimile edition is great and I highly recommend it, But you can look at the ABC here thanks to ITMA: https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/score/neal-17 +X+X+ The Vaunting 1948 (Much older tune) The Vaunting I’m playing the Kilberry setting, but it is much older. https://www.altpibroch.com/ps235/ I highly Recommend William Donaldson’s Notes on the Vaunting from Pipes and Drums: http://www.pipesdrums.com/wp-content/docengines/0AED190CF16C4B6EBCE39F0B990A2872.pdf Here is a live link to John Burgess playing it on Tobar an Dualcais (Kist O Riches) https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/57393?l=en Litten Manuscript: For More information or an ABC notation of the Manuscript go here: http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20Info.html 1802: Princess of Wales Minuet From Litten: http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20Info.html 1800: Prince of Wales Minuet (I didn’t play this) If you want to look at Duff’s Setting for the Prince of Wales Minuet it is here: from 1800-1813 https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105810955 For the Traditional Tune Archive page I reference: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Princess_of_Wales%27s_Minuet +X+X+X+ 1802: The Goose’s Minuet From Litten: http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20Info.html http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf Is actually King George III’s minuet, many settings including Wilson Ballroom: https://tunearch.org/wiki/King_George_the_III%27s_Minuet +X+X+X+ 1802: Royal Hunt From Litten: http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf 1802: The Royal Review: From Litten: http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf +X+X+X+ 1802: Kissing and Flirting: From Litten: http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf 1802: Kissing and Drinking: From Litten: http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf 1860: Kissing and Drinking from Goodman: http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-one#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=129&z=1217.335%2C1132.3591%2C6624.6755%2C2393.4042 +X+X+X+ 1802: Duke Gordon’s Reel: From Litten, I am having a difficult time Finding this tune in the PDF, but it may very well be there, I found it in this book: https://www.worldcat.org/title/william-littens-fiddle-tunes-1800-1802/oclc/5129508 http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf +X+ 1802: Cotillion: From Litten: http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf +X+X+X+ 1802: St. Catherine’s Lane at Five: From Litten: http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf If you want a look at the over versions of this tune I’ll likely explore on a future episode: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Larry_Bourn Litten has the other setting as : https://tunearch.org/wiki/Lord_Summer%27s_Reel One of the Settings is called Hauled on the Howser, Vickers is a bit different: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Haul_Away_the_Hawser_(1) seems a bit thin since the other Hawser tune which is similar to the St. Catherine tune is from well after Vickers: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Haul_Away_the_Hawser_(2) +X+X+X+ Please Consider Supporting the Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGASupport Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast