>> I'm curious about most frequently played Scots waltzes, I can only >> guess about Margarets and the famed Dark Island, but which others?
There are two sorts of tunes that are very commonly used for waltzes: Burns songs (any of the famous ones that can sensibly be played in 3/4: Ae Fond Kiss, A Red Red Rose, Ye Banks and Braes etc) and Gaelic waltzes, i.e. traditional Gaelic tunes with the rhythms and phrasing ironed out a bit to make them waltzable - My Home, Tean-a-nall, Mary Young and Fair, Dark Lochnagar, etc. The two categories tend not to be mixed in the same set. Then there an assortment of other Scots 3/4 tunes that get used for any other category of waltz, e.g. The Road and the Miles to Dundee. > Margaret's is not a traditional waltz, Scottish or otherwise. It was > composed by Pat Shaw for an English country dance of the same name. Yeah, but the very fact that you have to argue that means it IS Scots traditional now... =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
