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Also known as Sweet Hearts.
A tune by this name has been recorded together with Midnight On The Water (a few times) and My Cape Breton Home (a few times).
Margaret’s has been added to 27 tune sets.
Margarets has been added to 398 tunebooks.
# Added by LH 15 years ago .
# Added by AccordionGirl 4 years ago .
This waltz is more commonly played in C and D rather than in G.
# Posted by LH 15 years ago .
I’ve heard it played most often in A.
I agree with Dow. Nearly always played in A in Scotland. I believe that’s the key it was composed in , but there’s nothing wrong with changing it if you want to.
I’ve never seen this tune in any other key but A & I’ve played it for ….14 years or so. Nice wee tune, I think it’s well known for being a tune Aly Bain plays.
I learn’t it from an old Kentucky fiddler (used to play with Bill Monroe) in D.
There was also a time problem with one of the bars and the B-part was repeated with a first and second ending, offering a variant on the last 8 bars.. I’ve removed the suggested chords, which I’ll add later. I’ve also re-transcribed this from 9/8 to 3/4, waltz time, and I’ve corrected the one bar that was too long, and removed the incorrect repetition of the B-part. Two turns on c (~c>A) have also been removed.
Pat Shaw wrote this for the retirement of a lady called Margaret Grant from the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) in 1959 (as mentioned above).
# Posted by Ebor_fiddler 8 years ago .
PS - He wrote it in G.
Margaret’s Waltz, Louis Waltz, Kate Martin’s Waltz.
I notice in the Aly Bain video listed above that the B section is repeated so it lasts a full 32 bars. I know it messes with the symmetry of the tune but that section is so nice, it is worth repeating.
Great tune. Dancers love it.
# Posted by schriltz 7 years ago .
like me to play fast enough. Orkney’s not far from Shetland where the tune originates.
It is also a English Country dance, composed by Pat Shaw. It is often played with Farewell to Devon to mark the leaving of Margaret Grant.
# Posted by JAMES POTTER one year ago .
Originates in Shetland? seems to be what a lot of people think since Aly Bain made it popular. But the composer, Pat Shuldham Shaw is, a stated above, English. None of the versions above really totally correspond with what we usually play: far more dotted notes than shown. As I don’t do ABC, I can’t submit a version, other than in standard notation.
adapted it - in Shetland. Wasn’t he doing research into the music of Shetland so spent some time there? X:7 is how I remember us playing it in Orkney, though there may indeed have been more dotted notes. We were learner fiddlers.
It is sometimes difficult to define what is a Shetland, Irish, or Scottish tune…….
Is it a tune composed by somebody living in that area, or a tune composed in the same style of the music from that area(by anyone, anywhere), or a tune popularised or adopted by players of that particular music?
# Posted by Johnny Jay, Melody Player one year ago .
My impression is that it is better known in Scotland than England (and usually played in A in Scotland, while the G/D melodeons in England must have it in G.) Certainly played a lot up here. So you are probably right there Susan. We did have a visiting German group recently who said they would play us this Scottish waltz………………..!
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I counted one hundred and forty-six "r"s in that text.
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