Can anyone tell me where I can obtain / purchase a copy of Hardy's book "The Secret of Jigs"? Yours aye, Geoff Jones [1]www.geoffjones.info Anthony Robb wrote:
Hello John Many musicians kept books of dots to help them remember tunes. Better scholars than me have pointed out that the inadequacies of these books/dots in conveying the dialect, lilt, style, whatever you want to call it make it imperative that the tunes are passed on along with the style, approach etc. aurally. Stewart Hardy has very recently produced an excellent work called "The Secret of Jigs" which analyses this from a "classical" stand point and is well worth a read (even for pipers). Let's face it, if it hadn't been for the aural traditions the recent discussions re styles and interpretations would not have been so warm-blooded! As Stewart points out, dots are fine once the syle of the region has been studied memorised and then internalised. It is only after these fundamentals have been put in place that we can call ourselves traditional musicians and than start to expand repertoire via dots, experiment and make the music our own but connected to what has gone before. Hope this makes sense. Regards Anthony -- To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.geoffjones.info/ 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
