There is also the question of what did Dixon intend by his blank key signature? Did it mean 'this tune is in Gmix/Cmajor or Adorian'? Or did it mean, as with Highland pipe music, 'I am not bothering to say what the actual key signature is, as you know already'?
John ________________________________________ From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] on behalf of Matt Seattle [theborderpi...@googlemail.com] Sent: 29 February 2012 23:01 To: Dartmouth NPS Subject: [NSP] Re: March 2012 TOTM: "Adam a Bell" selected by Julia Say On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:33 PM, John Dally <[1]dir...@gmail.com> wrote: Dixon's tunes as transcribed in THE MASTER PIPER are in A mixolydian and the NSpiper has to take into account that there is more involved than simply transposing to G major, and in the case of some of the tunes he/she might just as well play them as written in THE MASTER PIPER. It's an interesting viewpoint, John. There is the precedent of Billy Pigg's 'Skye Crofters' played in nominal A on NSP. In what key do you play 'Athol Highlanders' on NSP? I have to say, it's not a problem for me. I don't play NSP. I have enough other problems. -- References 1. mailto:dir...@gmail.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
