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‖ port-a-beul Sc.|ˈporʃtəˈbial|
Pl. (also used erron. as sing.) puirt-a-beul.
[Gael., lit. ‘music from mouth’.]
‘A quick tune, gen. a reel-tune or the like, of Lowland Sc. orig. to which Gael. words of a quick repetitive nature have been added to make it easier to sing, now occasionally used as an accompaniment to dancing in the absence of instrumental music’ (Sc. Nat. Dict.). Also transf. and attrib.
1901K. N. MacDonald Puirt-a-beul 3 Puirt-a-beul, ‘mouth-tunes’, or ‘tunes for dancing’. 1938[see mouth music s.v. mouth n. 21]. 1945B. Fergusson Lowland Soldier 12 The burn's making ever its own port-a-beul. 1952N. Mitchison Lobsters on Agenda viii. 94 The three from the Glen, Janet, Sheila and young Mrs. Macrae, were trying over a port a beul, very lightly, a living breath of humming. 1957Scottish Stud. I. 133 The Puirt-a-beul are popularly supposed to have originated as a result of the religious opposition to musical instruments such as the bagpipes and the fiddle, which was at its strongest in the middle of the nineteenth century. 1964Listener 15 Oct. 595/2, I shall never forget.., in a Roman street, a childish jet of water dancing, like MacDiarmid's duck, to its own port a beul. c1970A. MacPhee Story of Highland Bagpipe (An Comunn Gaidhealach) 8 All Gaelic music and pipe tunes are not sad and plaintive. Merely listen to a good ‘puirt-a-beul’ (mouth-music) singer. 1974People's Jrnl. (Inverness & Northern Counties ed.) 5 Jan. 13/2 Other lively numbers are ‘Ta-Ra-Ra Bhoom Di-Ay’, written in Gaelic when that rhythm was the fashion and ‘Tha na Cailean Meallda’, a swinging puirt-a-beul. |