John Chambers wrote: > ...New England contra-dance musicians (who consider it Irish)...
So, for that matter, do Irish musicians. Even if it were Nathaniel Gow's composition it, along with hundreds of Scots-origin tunes, can be regarded as Irish because it has been absorbed into that tradition. It doesn't exactly work the other way around. Take a tune like "The Rakes of Mallow" which is obviously an Irish tune in origin (Mallow is a town in County Cork): it has been played for centuries in Scotland and is part of our traditional repertoire, but would we call it a Scottish tune? Consider this can of worms opened (are you ready, Ted?). -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
