Annotation:Colville's Rant

Find traditional instrumental music

Back to Colville's Rant


X: 1 % T: Colville's Rant R: reel M: 4/4 L: 1/8 K: Amix |:a|cAeA cAAg|BGDG BGGa|cAeA cAAe|dBGB eAA:| |:B|A2 ag aeef|gage dBGB|A2 ag aeef|gedB BAGB| A2 ag aeef|gage dBGB|ABcd ec~c2|dBgB BAA:|



COLVILLE'S RANT. Scottish, Canadian, Pipe Reel (whole time). Canada, Cape Breton. A Mixoldyian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in Glasgow pipe-maker Donald MacPhee's A Selection of Music for the Highland Bagpipe (1876).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Donald MacPhee (A Selection of Music for the Highland Bagpipe), 1876; p. 47.

Recorded sources: - Canadian Broadcasting Corp. NMAS 1972, Natalie MacMaster - "Fit as a Fiddle" (1993).



Back to Colville's Rant