Flora Macdonald reel

Also known as Flora MacDonald’s, McDonald’s, Miss Flora MacDonald’s, Thearlaich! Nan Tigeadh Tu.

There are 23 recordings of this tune.

This tune has been recorded together with

Bog An Lochan (lots of times),
The Capuchin (a few times),
The Nine Pint Coggie (a few times) and
The Warlocks (a few times).

Flora Macdonald appears in 1 other tune collection.

Flora Macdonald has been added to 4 tune sets.

Flora Macdonald has been added to 160 tunebooks.

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Five settings

X: 1
T: Flora Macdonald
R: reel

X: 2
T: Flora Macdonald
R: reel

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Edor
|:~E3F BFDF|~E3F dFDF|E2ED EFGA|BGAG FEDF:|
|:E2ed eEED|Eeef dBAd|B2ed Bcde|1 fdec dBAF:|2 fdec dBAg||
f2ef beef|g3g gaef|gfeg bag(f|f3)^d bagf|
gfeg beg(g|g3)g ^gaef|gfec dBAF|FG2G FEFD||

X: 3
T: Flora Macdonald
R: reel

M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Emin
|:E2EF BFDF|E2EF dFDF|E2EF G2GA|BGAG FDDF:|
|:Beed eEEF|Eee^c dBAF|Eee^c d2de|1 fde^c dBAF:|2 fde^c dBAg||
|:f2ef beef|g2gb agfd|e2ed efga|1 bgag fddf:|2 bgag fedc||
|:BEBA BEEe|BEB^c dBAe|1 BEBA B^cde|
fde^c dBAF:|2 B/B/B B^cd2 de|^c/d/e cA dBAF||

X: 4
T: Flora Macdonald
R: reel

X: 5
T: Flora Macdonald
R: reel

Nine comments

Thanks for uploading this. It was beginning to become a pain trying to learn it by ear.

Corrections :

The last line has bar 1 repeated twice - I think this is an error as it ends up giving a 5 bar phrase at the end.
Also, it’s in E minor - same key signature as G, but the chord structure would be in Em.

Is this not the reel version of Bog an Lochan?

hmm i believe the last note of the last bar of the the second line should be one octave higher…

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Flora Macdonald reel

Five settings

Nine comments

Corrections :

Flora Macdonald, X:2

Flora MacDonald, X:3

Re: Flora MacDonald, X:3

Flora Macdonald, X:4

Flora Macdonald, X:5