Pipe Music: The Battle of Mulroy

[BoldHighlander]

Is anyone familiar with a pipe tune entitled "Latha na Maoile Ruadh (The Battle of Mulroy)"?

I really have no other information about it other than on a website I was looking at it was listed as the pipe music for Clan Macdonell of Keppoch.

[HarborSpringsPiper]

No, but FWIW I searched "Ceolas" and "Bob Pekaar's Tune Index" and couldn't find it in either of those under either title.

[BoldHighlander]

No, but FWIW I searched "Ceolas" and "Bob Pekaar's Tune Index" and couldn't find it in either of those under either title.

Thanks.

By chance do your sources say anything about another piece entitled:
"Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch"?
I asked about it once on this thread but never received a response.

[HarborSpringsPiper]

Result of search for "Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch":

5849 ARCHIBALD MACDONALD OF KEPPOCH Air DN Ceol na Fidhle Vol. II

20319 Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch Slow Air F 6/8 Lerwick, A p 71 Kilted Fiddler

Here are the online search engines I referenced:

http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/TuneIndex/

http://www.patrickmclaurin.com/tunedatabase/final.html

[BoldHighlander]

Result of search for "Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch":

5849 ARCHIBALD MACDONALD OF KEPPOCH Air DN Ceol na Fidhle Vol. II

20319 Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch Slow Air F 6/8 Lerwick, A p 71 Kilted Fiddler

Here are the online search engines I referenced:

http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/TuneIndex/

http://www.patrickmclaurin.com/tunedatabase/final.html

Great! Thanks, I appreciate it!

[haukehaien]

Is anyone familiar with a pipe tune entitled "Latha na Maoile Ruadh (The Battle of Mulroy)"?

I really have no other information about it other than on a website I was looking at it was listed as the pipe music for Clan Macdonell of Keppoch.

The tune appears to be piobaireachd, and is sometimes called "Isabel Mackay" or "Isabella Mackay"; the first published example is in Neil MacLeod's "A Collection of Piobaireachd or Pipe Tunes Verbally Taught by the McCrummen Pipers of Skye". Settings of it are available in:
The above collection.
Angus Mackay's Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd (as "Nameless")
The David Glen manuscript (as "Nameless")
The Nether Lorn manuscript (as "Isabel Mackay [Clan Donald Roaich]")
Piobaireachd Society Collection

The sheet music is available online from the Piobaireachd Society and from Ceol Sean.com, although it may be difficult; the tune was used as a competition tune by the Society in 1938, and it was recorded that the competing pipers "seemed to find difficulty in giving a really musical rendering." If you'd like to hear it, it's on Brown & Nicol - Masters Of Piobaireachd vol 8, which is available on CD.

[BoldHighlander]

Thank you!

The tune appears to be piobaireachd, and is sometimes called "Isabel Mackay" or "Isabella Mackay"; the first published example is in Neil MacLeod's "A Collection of Piobaireachd or Pipe Tunes Verbally Taught by the McCrummen Pipers of Skye". Settings of it are available in:
The above collection.
Angus Mackay's Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd (as "Nameless")
The David Glen manuscript (as "Nameless")
The Nether Lorn manuscript (as "Isabel Mackay [Clan Donald Roaich]")
Piobaireachd Society Collection

The sheet music is available online from the Piobaireachd Society and from Ceol Sean.com, although it may be difficult; the tune was used as a competition tune by the Society in 1938, and it was recorded that the competing pipers "seemed to find difficulty in giving a really musical rendering." If you'd like to hear it, it's on Brown & Nicol - Masters Of Piobaireachd vol 8, which is available on CD.