Loch Laven Castle
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Loch Laven Castle", also known as "Loch Leven Castle", "Lochleven Castle", "The Gill Can",<br> "Humors of Tuamgraney", "Miss Lyle's Reel", "Shores of Lough Greaney", "Silver Street Lasses"<br> or "Tomgraney Castle" is a Scottish and Canadian old-time reel, hornpipe or breakdown in<br> A Dorian (Brody, Cranford/Holland, Perlman, Spadaro) or A Minor (Davie, Hunter, Kerr, Milne).<br> The parts are played AAB (most versions), AABB' (Brody, Perlman, Spadaro) or AA'BB' (Spadaro).<br> Loch Leven Castle, surrounded by a loch in Perth and Kinross, served as the site of an exciting<br> 16th century drama involving Mary, Queen of Scots, who was imprisoned there for several months<br> by Sir William Douglas, at the behest of the Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland.<br> The melody is similar to "Bonaparte Crossing the Alps".<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Cranford's Jerry Holland: The Second Collection (2000),<br> Davie's Davie’s Caledonian Repository (1829-30),<br> Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988),<br> Kaufman's Beginning Old Time Fiddle (1977),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (1880),<br> Laybourn's Köhler’s Violin Repository vol. 3 (1885),<br> Martin & Hughes' Ho-ro-gheallaidh (1990),<br> Milne's Middleton’s Selection of Strathspeys, Reels &c. for the Violin (1870),<br> Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996) and<br> Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980).<br> It was recorded by David Hutchison (1936),<br> The West Orrtanna String Band on The West Orrtanna String Band (1976),<br> Jerry Holland on Jerry Holland (1976),<br> Fuzzy Mountain String Band on Summer Oaks and Porch (1973),<br> Norman Blake on Directions and<br> Ron Gonella on Scottish Violin Music (1966).<br>
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