Re: [scots-l] need help
How can I type a Barline to enter note?.
on a MacOS computer near me, the keyboard has the barline ('|') symbol
just above the backslash ('\') key, just to the left of the return
key.
if you've got a non-US keyboard (which sounds quite possible from your
use of english), then this symbol might not be immediately available.
even if it is not available on your keyboard, you can always get it by
using copy and paste - copy some text containing the desired symbol
(e.g. from this email) and paste into the text of your abc.
does this help?
cheers,
rog.
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Re: [scots-l] Put Me In the Big Chest
I have played this tube for ages do you mean tuba? a shlightly shurprising choice of inshtrument! Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: Introductions (was Re:[scots-l] Tune ID)
and also New England style fiddler Rodney Miller, who I know nothing about; anyone know of him? He's one of my favourite fiddlers. He's fundamentally a dance (contradance) fiddler, but seems to be a bit of an all-rounder. Someone lent me a tape of his (Airplang) which I loved and wore out playing, and eventually got around to getting more of his stuff (off the web: http://www.greatmeadowmusic.com/) and it's all great. His style really has a want to get up and dance feel about it (and from my point of view, there's no higher achievement); it's effortlessly musical, delicate yet driving, and he comes up with wonderful impromptu tune variations while retaining the essence of the tune. And his tune repertoire comes from all over (Scottish, Irish, French Canadian, New England, ...), which suits me perfectly. I had the good fortune to see him at Sidmouth Folk Festival last year (and play in a session with him too) and he definitely met my expectations. I'm jealous - you've got a top lineup! cheers, rog. PS. If anyone's interested, there's a great collection of tunes (arranged as sets for RSCDS dancers) at this page: http://www.pixton.org/scdpw04/musicbook.html It includes that tune I posted earlier (Boston Urban Ceilidh), amongst many others (it's interesting to compare the proper version with mine...). I don't know how long the page will last, so have a look while you can! Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Tune ID
X:692 T:Scots Reel i recognise this - it's an old favourite of mine. i think i know it from one of the Cavendish recordings, but i don't think it's one of their tunes (i'll have a check through the book though). it gets confused in my head with the Shetland Fiddler... i can probably find out from the LP sleeve when i next go home in september (i've got a recording here but not the names of the tunes), but the likelyhood of me remembering is pretty close to zero, i'm afraid. cheers, rog. PS having exposed my own dirty laundry, to the sounds of resounding silence, maybe others out there might wish to give their own stories... Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Re: two tunes
What's your story, Rog? Well... the way I originally got into this music was through dancing reels with family and friends, in the dance-style of the Highland Balls, a tradition that's easily maligned due to its class connections, but one that I feel is important, as being neither the high style of the RSCDS nor the country style of the usual Scottish ceilidh; the traditional dances and tunes still play a very strong role. For those that haven't tried it, the nearest other dance tradition in spirit that I've found is perhaps Contra which seems to have the same kind of emphasis on fun, fast turns, and close association of dance with music. I'd always loved the music too, but although I was taught the violin, I knew no-one that played the fiddle so, beyond a scrapy rendition of the Drunken Piper, and Hamilton House, I never associated the two. That changed a little when I was drafted in to play in the extras band (a scratch band that plays one number when the real band have a break) at the Skye Balls one year, great fun, but still reading from music, a bare substitute for the real thing. This started to change after some years, when I started discovering folk music, something I hadn't known existed in the modern world, and in particular I encountered a folk night at a pub near where I lived in York. This gave me an incentive to drag the fiddle out from where it had been mouldering in its case and try to actually play some of this stuff. One thing led to another; I discovered a proper session, abandoned written music, obtained a decent sounding fiddle and started to really enjoy playing. And ten years down the line, I find myself in a place where I seem to be half way between several worlds - I'm happy in the local session scene, play along with a bit of old timey kinda stuff on Sundays, enjoy trying to make up accompaniment for folks singing songs, but my heart is still with those old scots tunes and the infectious dancing that goes with them. I just can't get enough of them! Which is why it was so nice, the other weekend, to encounter these folks from Boston that knew loads of Scottish tunes, a joy to play along with. One of them, a guy named Tom Pixton, fantastic on the box and piano, sent me a CD he'd done with Lissa Schneckenburger (who plays with Hanneke) with some excellent stuff on it, highly recommended (http://www.pixton.org/scottishinsalem/sallycd.html), which kind of brings this post full circle, I guess! You asked for it! cheers, rog. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Shetland Fiddler, The
i play this tune when it comes to mind... in fact i played it at a session last night. it goes well with lots of other D tunes. i think last night i followed it with Paddy's Trip to Scotland (with the petronella variant on the second part). sometimes i precede it with Rannie MacLellan's, a current enduring favourite of mine, also in D. in the second part, i play a slight variant from the version you posted: AaBa cada instead of dAeA fAgA which is a little tricky for the fingers at first, but satisfactory when attained, and quite fun. for a couple of great sets of reels in D, check out the second CD in Natalie Macmaster's live CD. loads of stunning tunes, fantastic energy, in a genuine dance setting. there's one set that starts in C, and has a lovely transition to D by doing Laybourne's Hornpipe in both keys. you can hear the dancers react. cheers, rog. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Re: two tunes
i wrote: T:Boston Urban Ceilidh um, it occurs to me that the tune i just posted is neither traditional nor scottish, and hence is probably off topic. sorry about that. (although in mitigation, can i say that the tune's composer does play in scottish style (strongly influenced by alasdair fraser)?) Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Re: Kerr's reel-and-strathspey pages
I used to hear his reel The Apple Tree a lot a few years ago, it seems to have gone out of fashion. [...] A2 a2 fe`dc| Aa`ga fe`dc|[1 Bc`de fB`Bc| Bcde fefa:|! i play it... and sometimes people recognise it, but more often not. at least i'm pretty sure it's the same tune, but i'm not very good at humming through raw abc. my abc converter barfs at the backquotes in the above line. do you know what they're supposed to signify? my copy of the abc documentation doesn't mention this character. cheers, rog. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Kerr's reel-and-strathspey pages
Maybe it's just one way to avoid putting all the strathspeys in a different section from all the reels. Other tune collections mingle strathspeys and reels, likely for the same reason: it's nice to place a strathspey close to a reel that it might go well with. Are the Kerr's books all strictly alternating? I haven't looked at mine for years... Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
