Dear baroque gang, I have been trying to get into the Scottish, perhaps Celtic? - anyhow mostly more than less pentatonic - pieces in the Balcarres ms. It is difficult! Very! When I thought I got a tiny understanding to one example, "The New Highland Lady, mr. Beck's way" on page 4, I just (unluckily! ;) happened to google that name, and found the first 30 seconds of that piece played by Ronn McFarlane, a Scott as far as I know, see and hear http://www.hbdirect.com/album_detail.php?pid=319267 , and I understood that I do not understand the style well enough to play it well!
Any good advice? I already got a very good one: go to Scotland and spend your time in pubs. I believe this would be the remedy! But aren't there any cheaper means to get the understanding? :-) All best, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
