Tam Lin

I've combined the ballad tune with the reel known as Tam Lin in this piece and
used the arrangement to suggest the traditional tale. Nutshell version is: A
maiden, usually named Janet, is picking flowers in a wood. She picks a double
rose and Tam Lin appears. They make love and she becomes pregnant. She
discovers Tam Lin was once a mortal. He had fallen from his horse and was
taken by the Queen of Faery to her Realm. Janet learns she can return him to
his mortal state on a particular night during a Faery procession, where he will
be riding a white horse. Following his instructions, she pulls him from the
horse. He transforms into the shapes of beasts, but she does not let him go
until he becomes a hot coal, which she casts into a well. Tam Lin is restored.

Instruments include zither, feadan, and bodhran (4:29).