John Chambers wrote: > ...It sounds better to me if I play it as Amix. This is the > same key sig as Edorian, of course, but the tonic is clearly A. So > should the c's be sharp or natural?
Sharp all the way. Of course you're right, John - Amix. My infamous fumbling when it comes to talking about modes is evident. > Part of why I'd put it into Amix is that it looks and sounds like a > highland pipe tune. But I suppose it doesn't have to be. It's a pipe tune, but the reason for offering this alternative way of playing it is that it sounds wonderful. When I first transposed it I tried to stay faithful to the way it was played on the record. It's a lovely, haunting tune, isn't it? As I spend a lot of time driving these days, I'm always listening to music, and in traffic jams I try to learn some tunes. I heard a nice tune on a Deaf Shepherd recording this week - "Clanranald". As the queues of cars crawled along, I worked it out on the whistle which is always in the side pocket. It was probably a straightforward reel originally, but the band plays it as a slow reel. Aha - I've just looked it up, and one alternative name for it is given as "MacKinnon's Brook" - isn't that a Cape Breton setting? Kate Dunlay says "may be related" - I think more certainly. Can't work out the proper mode. Or, more truthfully, can't be bothered working it out. X:734 T:Clanranald S:Deaf Shepherd Z:Nigel Gatherer L:1/8 M:4/4 K:Em Z | E3 B GEE^c | dDDA FDAF | E3 B GE B/c/d | FDAF BEE :| f | geBA GFEg | fdAG FEDf | geBA GFE^c | dBAF BEE f | geBA GFEg | fdAG FEDf | g<bf<a efde | BdAF BEE || -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
