{"id":3036,"date":"2021-03-15T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2021-03-17T10:26:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:26:39","slug":"puirt-a-beul-mouth-tunes-or-songs-for-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/2021\/03\/15\/puirt-a-beul-mouth-tunes-or-songs-for-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Puirt-\u00e0-Beul – Mouth-tunes: or Songs for Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Title page from Puirt-\u00e1-Beul-Mouth-Tunes.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ninety years ago, in 1931, Puirt-a-beul – Mouth-tunes, or Songs for Dancing as Practised From A Remote Antiquity by the Highlanders of Scotland<\/i><\/a> was reprinted with \u201cfew minor corrections\u201d from its 1901 first printing. The song book was \u201ccollected and arranged\u201d by Keith Norman MacDonald, a medical doctor in Scotland with an interest in Highland music. MacDonald is chiefly remembered for three works: The Gesto Collection of Highland Music<\/i> (1895); The MacDonald Bards from Mediaeval Times<\/i> (1900) and Puirt-a-Beul \u2013 Mouth-tunes: or Songs for Dancing as Practised from a Remote Antiquity by the Highlanders of Scotland<\/i> (1901).<\/p>\n

An advertisement for the puirt-\u00e0-beul collection states that the volume includes, \u201c120 Tunes, and in many cases several sets of words are given all sung to the same tune.\u201d Puirt-\u00e1-beul <\/a>is the Scottish Gaelic for \u201ctunes from a mouth.\u201d Although often used for dancing without instruments, contemporary performance often includes instrumental accompaniment.<\/p>\n

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One example of puirt-\u00e0-beul music is the tune Ruidhle Mo Neighean Dhonn<\/em>, or The Brown Haired Lass\/Maid<\/em>. The tune and lyrics from MacDonald\u2019s book is provided and can be followed with this 1952 reel-to-reel recording<\/a> from the digital sound recording archive Tobar an Dualchais\/Kist o Riches<\/a>, a site that includes oral recordings made in Scotland and further afield, from the 1930s onward.<\/p>\n

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Reel notation and lyrics to Ruidhle Mo Nighean Dhonn.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ninety years ago, in 1931, Puirt-a-beul – Mouth-tunes, or Songs for Dancing as Practised From A Remote Antiquity by the Highlanders of Scotland was reprinted with \u201cfew minor corrections\u201d from its 1901 first printing. The song book was \u201ccollected and arranged\u201d by Keith Norman MacDonald, a medical doctor in Scotland with an interest in Highland […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13829],"tags":[4299,14789],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-collections","tag-digital-scores","tag-scores","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6lSEF-MY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}