You're the hands-down coolest, Rob. Good luck. I will consume with relish (as I did your old CD of this music). ...And I hope the old Skene book gets its time in your newly lit spotlight too.
Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Rob MacKillop > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 4:27 PM > To: LuteNet list > Subject: [LUTE] Scottish Lute Recording Project > > Here's something I've been meaning to do for a while - a website devoted > to Scottish lute music. Over the next fifty years, if I'm spared, I will > record as much of the Scottish repertoire as I can, placing free mp3 files > on the site. I haven't the slightest interest in commercial recordings > anymore, and view this project as the creation of an aural database for > performers of fiddle, harp, pipes, etc, (as well as lute players, of > course) who share much of the repertoire. Despite a number of excellent > CDs of Scottish lute music, they are not always easy to find, might fall > out of circulation, and contain only a small percentage of the surviving > repertoire. > > Scottish lute music is what brought me to the lute in the first place, and > it remains closest to my heart, despite my love of the music of Weiss and > Robert de Visee, et al. > > So here it is in its earliest state: http://scottishlute.com/ - watch it > grow! I uploaded the first three Balcarres tunes today. I will be > concentrating on Balcarres for a few months, until I get a 10c for the > other manuscripts. > > Feel free to link to the site, use Facebook and Twitter links, etc. It's a > mammoth task, and I will need periodic messages of support! It will > definitely be a labour of love. > > And, yes, if you want to, you can download the tracks to your mp3 players. > > Rob MacKillop > > www.ScottishLute.com > > www.robmackillop.net > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
