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 DEVIL IN THE KITCHEN [1], THE. AKA and see "Calum Crubach," "Devil Shake the Half-Breed [2]," "Gurren's Castle," "Miss Sarah Drummond of Perth [1]," "Miss Drummond of Perth [1]," "Mountain Reel [4]," "Our Highland Cousins," "The Prince of Wales Jig," "The Titanic Highland," "Yorkshire Bite [1]." Scottish, Shetland, Canadian, Irish; (Pipe) Reel, Fling or Strathspey. Ireland, County Donegal. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Hunter): AA'B (Skinner/Harp): AABB (Martin): AABBA'A'BB (Perlman): AABCCD (Skinner/Violinist). Composed (according to J. Scott Skinner) as a pipe tune by William Ross, the Queen's Piper. The melody was arranged (and popularized) by J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927) and appears as a two-part tune in his Harp and Claymore collection (1904). Skinner later expanded the melody to four parts (variations) in his Scottish Violinist; in Harp and Claymore he directs that the tune be played an octave lower the second time through. In pipe collections the tune is set as a strathspey is usually attributed to one John MacPherson and once to a Donald McPhedran (in his own collection). A distanced version of the "Devil in the Kitchen" is popular reel in County Donegal; the late Donegal fiddler Danny O'Donnell (1910-2001) recorded a version on his album entitled generically as "Highland Fling" (see "Devil in the Kitchen [3]"). In Scotland the melody is often used to accompany the dance the Highland Fling. Christine Martin (2002) suggests the strathspey and reel settings of "The Devil in the Kitchen" are a perfect vehicle for the dance Scotch (or Highland) reel, which is also known as the foursome reel.  Source for notated version: Gus Longphie (b. 1914, Little Harbor, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Souris) [Perlman]; fiddler Ian Kennedy (Fort William, Scotland), who calls the tune "The Reel of Tulloch"-Christine Martin believes the tune may have been associated with the dance Reel of Tulloch in the Lochaber area [Martin/2002].  Printed sources: Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 120. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), vol. 1, 1991; p. 50 (strathspey setting). Martin (Traditional Scottish Fiddling), 2002; p. 48 (both strathspey and reel settings). Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 192 (strathspey). Skinner (The Scottish Violinist), 1900; p. 11. Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 115.  Recorded sources: Celestial Entertainment CECS001, Brenda Stubbert - "In Jig Time!" (1995). Culburnie Records CUL 102, Alasdair Fraser & Jody Stecher - "The Driven Bow" (1988). Culburnie COL 113D, Aladair Fraser & Tony McManus - "Return to Kintail" (1999). Green Linnet SIF 1139, "Eileen Ivers" (1994. Recorded in duet with Natalie MacMaster). Rodeo Banff RBS 1066, Dan Joe MacInnis - "The Cape Breton Fiddle of..." (1962). Rounder 7001, Joe Cormier - "Scottish Violin Music from Cape Breton Island" (1974. Strathspey setting). Rounder RO7023, Natalie MacMaster - "No Boundaries" (1996). Rounder 82161-7032-2, Bill Lamey - "From Cape Breton to Boston and Back: Classic House Sessions of Traditional Cape Breton Music 1956-1977" (2000). Rounder Records 7057, Jerry Holland - "Parlor Music" (2005). Ón tSean-Am Anall' (Danny O'Donnell). See also listings at: Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index, Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources , Alan Ng's Irishtune.info.

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