--- On Sun, 31/7/11, Gibbons, John <j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
Matt has argued an octave pair of drones tuned Gg will work for The Peacock/Mad Moll and other harmonically similar tunes like Cuckold - you want to show up the contrast between the Am and Cmaj in the first and second strain respectively. Hello John The quick answer for me is, I'm not sure I do but I might be open to persuasion. Might it be possible for you to borrow a recorder of some sort (cam or audio) and let us see/hear what you mean? I know if I tried my heart wouldn't be in it and I'd probably not be able to convince myself but the sound of someone playing like that with conviction might open my ears and mind. I should admit much of this is above my head (dots are one thing but theory is even lower down my list of must dos in whatever time I have left - as some one recently said, talking about music is like standing with two young boys in front of a sweet shop and explaining to them how sweets are made). Give us the theory by all means but please sweeten the pill with the sounds to bring it all to life. The only way to learn traditional music is by listening, listening, listening then listening again - an approach instilled in me 37 years ago by John Doonan and corroborated only last night by Jimmy Little. I'm sure you have experience and knowledge to impart - it would be great if you shared it aurally and not just on paper. Cheers Anthony -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
