Thanks, Anthony. That is helpful. Now I'll just have to give it a try both ways to see how each sounds I guess. I don't think an ABC player cuts it for this sort of thing.
-- Rick On May 17, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Anthony Robb wrote: > Hello Rick > That's probably a one for Catriona but I'll take a stab - > a) It's the key it seems to have been written in > b) It probably fits well on the fiddle and that's what the teacher played > c) When people alter keys like that (eg. Calliope House from Emaj to Dmaj) > something is lost > and most importantly d) It sounded really lovely in that key. > In this particular instance Alice was the only piper among a group of hotshot > players - mostly fiddlers - so she just fitted in. The thing was she made > such a good job of it Catriona dropped a group of about 10 down to just her > and Alice to really punch it along as a middle tune in a great set. > Anthony > > --- On Tue, 17/5/11, Rick Damon <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Rick Damon <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: E major tune > To: "Anthony Robb" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Dartmouth NPS" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, 17 May, 2011, 15:21 > > Anthony, can you explain why one would want to play such a tune in Emaj, when > it fits nicely in Gmaj? > > Just wondering... > > On May 17, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Anthony Robb wrote: > > > > > --- On Tue, 17/5/11, Gibbons, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It is remarkable that an Emaj tune can be played successfully, 4 sharps > > away from the NSP's home key. It might be easier if the tune was on a > > gapped scale rather than full-blown E major, but it is hard to avoid > > the E-B interval, which isn't quite a 5th on NSP, but should be in this > > key. > > Playing on the keys rather than fingerholes slows us mortals down, too. > > I'd like to see the dots or abc of the tune, just to know what some > > people are managing nowadays. > > Hello John & all > > Neil Tavernor kindly sent attachments of two versions in ABC from JC > > tune finder. > > Here's a link to ABC and sheetmusic formats: > > [1]http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8853/comments > > 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.thesession.org/tunes/display/8853/comments > > 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > Rick Damon > [email protected] > > "A computer without Windows is like a chocolate chip cookie without ketchup." > > > Rick Damon [email protected] "A computer without Windows is like a chocolate chip cookie without ketchup." --
