On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Gibbons, John
<[1]j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
Dixon's MS includes many tunes with Scottish versions/antecedents.
And interestingly, pipe versions of two Scottish tunes unknown in pipe
versions in Scotland, and the first known use of the Stool of
Repentance title decades earlier than its first known use in Scotland
(the tune being known earlier under different titles).
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From: [2]lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu
[mailto:[3]lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Julia Say
Sent: 07 March 2012 14:21
> Bruce was one of the 2 editors of the Northumbrian Minstrelsy, though
Stokoe was the
> main editor for the tunes.
It took a long time to dawn on me that neither of them knew what they
were doing, because of the false regard the NM is held in, but I have
since read contemporary accounts questioning their competence - not
everyone was fooled.
It must be far more useful to spend time looking into the lives and
music of the actual players.
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