Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

Jeremy Kingsbury

This show is (mostly) a bi-weekly podcast that explores the likely repertoire of eighteenth and early nineteenth century bagpipers, using historic music collections (written for bagpipes or not), performed on Uilleann pipes, Highland pipes, Border pipes, Lowland Pipes, Northumbrian Smallpipes and whistles. Every episodes notes include links to the historic sheet music when available. For information about my Albums go here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/albums For information about Jeremy and the instruments played on the show go here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/about

Categories: Music

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Check out Cold and Raw on Bandcamp: Link goes live Friday, September 6 (California timezone) https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/cold-and-raw

1737: Tibby Fowler from David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf
1737: Old Wife Beyond the Fire from David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf
1730s (I think): A Trip to the Laundry From Johnson’s Caledonian Country Dances
https://imslp.org/wiki/Caledonian_Country_Dances_with_a_Thorough_Bass_(Various)

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Soldiers Dance, Tom Come Tickle Me
1791: Soldier’s Dance, from John Watlen’s Celebrated Circus Tunes
https://archive.org/details/Shand11/page/n109/mode/2up?view=theater
1740s: Tom Come Tickle Me: From David Young’s MacFarlane Manuscript:
https://rmacd.com/music/macfarlane-manuscript/collection/

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1812: Miss Mary__, From Eliza Ross’s Manuscript,
http://web.archive.org/web/20230204123514/https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript
1776: Old Wagon Way from William Vickers’ Manuscript
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0311100.jpg
1791: Miss Watson’s Favorite By C
Dalrymple in Watlens’ Celebrated Circus Tunes
https://archive.org/details/Shand11/page/n117/mode/2up?view=theater
1812: Eliza Ross’s Unnamed Jig, from Eliza Ross’s Manuscript
http://web.archive.org/web/20230204123514/https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript

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1745: The Souters of Selkirk From Oswald’s Caledonian Pocket Companion vol 1
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94596032

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1787: The High Road to Dublin from Thompson’s Hibernian Muse
https://archive.org/details/nd317340770/page/n67/mode/2up
1807: Paddy the Piper from Smollet Holden’s Collection of Favorite Irish Airs
https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Favorite_Irish_Airs_(Holden%2C_Smollet)
1750: Larry Grogan from Oswald’s Caledonian Pocket Companion
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94600260

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1791: Honorable Mr. David Ruthven’s Birth Day by Lady Ruthven from John Watlen’s Celebrated Circus Tunes
https://archive.org/details/Shand11/page/n119/mode/2up?view=theater
1791: Pony Races from John Watlen’s Celebrated Circus Tunes
https://archive.org/details/Shand11/page/n109/mode/2up?view=theater
1791: L’abbe’ from John Watlen’s Celebrated Circus Tunes
https://archive.org/details/Shand11/page/n109/mode/2up?view=theater

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1828: The Buckskin Kilt from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, Reels and Jigs
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682770
1828: The Wren’s Death from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, Reels and Jigs
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682759
1828: The Kilt is my Delight from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, Reels and Jigs
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682704
1828: Jenny Dang the Weaver from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, Reels and Jigs
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682528

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https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes
or my second album on Bandcamp!
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/pay-the-pipemaker
or my third album on Bandcamp!
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal
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