Sorry about the spelling. ;-)
Wouldn't anyone somewhat familiar with the tradition assume Dixon's
collection to be smallpipe tunes just by perusing the table of
contents? It's after reading your insightful text, Matt, that one sees
the connection to Border pipes. Your proof depends in part on the key
signature. It is up to the piper to decide as a matter of musical
taste whether to play the tunes with a flattened seventh or not,
although that decision should, imho, be informed by the historical
arguments. In my experience Dixon's tunes rest very easily on the NSP
chanter regardless of which key you play them in.
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Matt Seattle
<[1]theborderpi...@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:21 PM, John Dally <[1][2]dir...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Of course, you could play Dixon's tunes
in Ionian (major scale), playing F# instead of an Fnat in the key
of
G, but the purest might consider that a cop-out if not down right
wrong.
The purest of the pure?
It's played in G major (with F#) on NSP, and arguably Dixon would
have
played it in the same mode, whatever his instrument and its actual
or
nominal pitch. This corresponds to Dick Hensold's view and I agree
with
him about many of the tunes which he has suggested are
(Northumbrian)
smallpipe tunes. I did not feel comfortable in changing Mr Dixon's
notation but I did signal this ambiguity.
On 2/29/12, Matt Seattle <[2][3]theborderpi...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Dave S
<[1][3][4]david...@pt.lu>
wrote:
>
> Reading in F and playing in G is also very worthwhile -- all
the
> renaissance and boaroque dance music ---
>
> In my not necessarily humble opinion, transposing at sight is
a
useful
> skill for any piper curious to look beyond the confines of a
single
> tradition, given that the nominal pitch of the 6-finger note
is
a
> movable feast. As with any other skill, you get better the
more
you do
> it.
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