>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 1 13:32:57 2001 Received: from c2bapps6.btconnect.com ([193.113.209.27]) by argyll.wisemagic.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA04879 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:32:43 -0800 Received: from btconnect.com (actually host host213-122-7-225.btconnect.com) by c2bapps6 with SMTP (XT-PP) with ESMTP; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 21:45:58 +0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 21:50:12 +0000 From: David Kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Icon Publications Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [scots-l] Essential discography, bibliography? References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitB&D Renaudin wrote: > > Hi, > > Which recordings and books (tutors, tunebooks...) would you consider as > essential for a newcomer to Scots music? > Any of the Greentrax record label 'compilations' would be pretty good. I think they have done either two or three CDs with various artists now. Greentrax tend to have modern, new recordings but a strong traditional feel to their artists. As for books, it totally depends on whether you want songs, 'music hall Scots' type tunes, 'old Scots', Highland stuff - there are many different types of Scottish music. A typical book of accordion tunes won't be the same as a book of bagpipe tunes, or one of fiddle tunes, even though the same tune might appear in different forms in each one. There is a little book with a CD called '100 Scots Songs' which is pretty good - the CD just covers one verse and chorus for each song, to explain how it should be 'paced' and how it should sound; the book just has the melody line and words and chords. Another version just has the words. I think it's published by Soodlums or Ossian, not sure which. You can find it almost everywhere, and it was previously sold with a tape (probably still is). I keep a copy in my guitar case because maybe 70 per cent of all the songs which people want to sing, but can't remember the words for, are in the book. 'Tunes' for fiddle etc is a more complicated matter as there are thousands and the collections vary greatly in date and taste. David Kilpatrick
