Dr. Iain MacAonghais jig

A big jig composed by Allan MacDonald. I learned this tune at a fiddle workshop a couple of weeks ago. Well…I thought I learned it. Later, I listened to the version of it on a Daimh album, and realized that what was taught at our fiddle workshop was only the first two parts! Lo and behold, the full pipe version, which I’ve here straightened and simplified, is online at Ronald MacDonald’s site: http://www.rmacd.com/music/moidart-collection/sample-two.pdf

Version 2 is a slightly less simplified version, with snaps and some of the more straightforward grace notes for non-pipe instruments. I won’t burden the site with where I’m inclined to throw in triplets.

The second time ending, edd e2, on the first part is, I think, a printing error from the Moidart Collection II. I think it should be edd d2, like all the other parts - the gracing {gdc} before the final note certainly suggests a D to follow and that is how it is presented in The Nineties Collection.

Also, some versions have the third part played thus, with crotchets replacing double quaver notes:
|:B|AAA B2A|BBB d2A|fAA B2A|fAA dBA|BBB d2A|fAA B2A|fdB Adf|edd d2:|
Again, that is how it appears in The Nineties Collection and how it is played by Ceolbeg here (2nd tune):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iLH5N7ilNw

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This is the Ceolbeg setting from the link above (starts about 1:12).
Note the slightly different ending to the last part : BBB ccA|dAA fff|fff AfA|edd d2|] as opposed to the original BBB ccA|fAA ddA|fff AfA|edd d2|]. The Ceolbeg ending is easier for me and makes slightly more sense but I shall work on both.

This tune is D not Amix.

Oh sorry, didn’t notice that the wrong key had been entered, just wen’t by key sig. Will correct it.

Wen’t?
Shouldn’t type while walking!

I thought would be the case Donald - going by the previously entered key, not the walking while typing!

There’s a two part version (first two parts) out there, perhaps popularised by the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band (four part tunes in pipe band medley sets are often reduced to two parts), where all the ties are pulled from the second part, giving:

|:e|f3 fdB|fdB Bff|fdB ecA|ecA Ace|
fdB fdB|Bff fdB|edB Adf|edd d2:|

You can hear it here:
https://youtu.be/v_Jr7wEOZbU?t=111

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and here:
https://youtu.be/5J8kbj6wjX8?t=150

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I prefer the original, but both work.