Annotation:Tulloch Gorum (2)

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X:1 T:Tulloch Gorm [2] M:4/4 L:1/8 S:Officer William Walsh Z:Paul Kinder R:Strathspey K:Amin a|c<Ae>A dG B2|c<Ae>A cAea|c<Ae>A d>G B2|c<Ae>A c2 B<a| c<Ae>A dG B2|c<Ae>A cAea|cAeA dG B2|c<Ae>A c2 Bc|| A<a (3efg d>G B2|A<ae>a caea|ca (3efg d>G B2|A<ae>a c2 Bc| A<a (3efg dG B2|A<ae>f g>ea>e|g>ag>e d>GB>g|a>eg>e a3||



TULLOCH GORM [2]. AKA - "Tullygoram Reel (The)." Scottish, Irish; Strathspey or Reel. A Minor (O'Neill): A Mixolydian (O'Connor). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A modal variant of "Tulloch Gorum (1)." O’Neill (1922) erroneously attributes the tune to the Scottish fiddler/composer William Marshall. A reel-time setting of the tune under the title "Tullygoram Reel" is contained in the late 19th/early 20th century music manuscript once in the possession of curate and fiddler biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster[1].


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Chicago police officer and Highland piper William Walsh [O’Neill]; Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection [O'Connor].

Printed sources : - O'Connor (The Rose in the Gap), 2018; No. 112, p. 69. Francis O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 100.






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  1. Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.