Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Cold Frosty Morning

This is a cool fiddle tune. It's in A minor, but the scale includes a major-sounding sharped 6th note (F#), which makes this tune in the A Dorian mode. Apparently some other Dorian mode songs are Eleanor Rigby, Another Brick in the Wall, and Scarborough Fair.

From what I read on the ever-reliable internet, this tune memorializes a battle called "Culloden Moor", in which an English army defeated a Scottish army and ended the Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland. This was followed by executing certain Scots who had been allied with that resistance, and giving their lands to other more English-friendly people.

Here's a recording of it on guitar: Cold Frosty Morning demo
And here's the tab for that arrangement: Cold Frosty Morning tab


I'll try to get a version of this up on Youtube with my pal Jack, who plays a great version of this tune on clawhammer banjo.

Some notable recordings of the tune include the Emory Lester & Mark Johnson recording from "Acoustic Rising", and the Butch Baldassari & David Schnaufer recording from "Appalachian Mandolin & Dulcimer".
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