Re: [scots-l] What makes a style "Scottish?"

[Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg]

>To Kate Dunley; Hi. Kate, Glad to read your contribution.

[Hi Alexander, Glad to read yours too.   My, aren't we all stubborn about
sticking to our positions through the years!!!]

>the very best CB fiddlers play with drive, good timing AND play in tune.

Some fiddlers are nearly perfect, aren't they!  All I can say is that some
people prefer perfect music and others prefer something wilder.  Here's an
example of a different heirarchy of values from what you expect in the
art-music world:  Have you heard Anner Bylsma play baroque cello?  He's a
musician who values sponteneity and emotion in music, and he's willing to
take chances to achieve it.  If that means occasional out-of-tune notes,
it's worth it!

>All of Llewelyn Lloyd's essays repeatedly reject the purely
>scientific approach and it is the latter's material which I have been
>quoting.

Sorry, I admit ignorance.  It sure sounded to me like Alexander was placing
more value on a scientific approach than on any (ethno)musicological
approach though.

In closing, Alexander, "I agree wit'chu but y're wrong!"  [as one of Howie
MacDonald's characters said so cleverly]

- Kate D.

--
Kate Dunlay & David Greenberg
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
http://www.total.net/~dungreen


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