On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Gibbons,
John <[1][email protected]> wrote:
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'?
I believe the former. The latter, illiterate, practice was yet to be
established, and WD shows himself to be literate. But, there is also a
good argument that the piper would know whether to play the major or
minor 7th from the nature of the tune, and some need one, some the
other.
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