Hear, hear! David
On 28 October 2011 22:26, Rob MacKillop <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl *******************************
