Stuart: There are 18 pieces from the Skene MS transcribed in "The Scottish Lute" by Ronn McFarlane, published by Mel Bay, Pacific MO, 1998. The collection also includes pieces from the Straloch and Rowallen MSS. You get both tablature and pitch transcriptions.
Daniel Heiman On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:42:35 +0100 Stuart Walsh <[email protected]> writes: > I got a microfilm of the Skene MS for mandore years ago and tried > reconstructing a few pieces. (The MS is really quite chaotic) Well > I > suddenly had the urge to look at the Skene music again and I wonder > if > anyone has done a full-scale job of reconstructing it, or just some > of it? > > There is a reconstruction of Kette Bairde by John H. Robinson (Lute > News > 71) and some other Skene mandore pieces in the lute tuning in other > > editions of Lute News but it's the majority of pieces in the > fourths-fifths tuning (like Kette Bairde) that I'm interested in. > There > was some recent discussion of Dauney's Ancient Scotish [sic] > Melodies on > Google books. Dauney, in the 19th century, gives reconstructions for > a > tuning a-d-a-d-a but the music is in standard notation and so there > is > no indication of the tablature. Also, glancing at Dauney's > reconstructions they look almost too orderly! > > > Stuart > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
