The Rakish Highlander
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Rakish Highlander", also known as "The Mountain Lark" is a Scottish and Irish reel in E Minor.<br> The parts are played AB.<br> The identification of a 'Scottish' provenance seems to have been assumed with the title in<br> William Bradbury Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). Francis O'Neill's printing of the same melody<br> under the title "The Mountain Lark" came twenty years later in Music of Ireland (1903), but it<br> was sourced to Patrolman James Kennedy, who had the tune from his father in County Leitrim.<br> The reel was in the repertoire of Long Island Irish fiddler and composer Larry Redican, who<br> learned it either from Ryan's Mammoth Collection or it's successor Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes and<br> who played it under the title "Rakish Highlander". Both Ryan's and O'Neill's titles for the tune<br> are unique to their collections. <br> It was printed in Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940) and Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883).<br>
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