The background to this tune has produced much speculation over the years with its Gaelic named version usually linked to the place of that name in Ross and Cromarty, about five miles NNE of Alness.[…]
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Tag: PS 131
Murdoch’s Black Dog
This title bothers me: It is one of pibroch’s unsolved mysteries. No-one has come up with a convincing interpretation. There are two dogs in Colin Campbell’s Instrumental Book 1797: ‘Samuell’s Black dog’ (PS 108) and ‘McLeod’s Dog Short Tail’ (PS 131), but we[…]
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Sorley’s Black Dog
The children’s game ‘Telephone’ (called ‘Chinese whispers’ in the UK) can have hilarious results. It works best when the seed phrase is unexpected. The same is true in oral transmission: bigger changes occur when the model is unfamiliar. If no template[…]
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