> I been looking (fruitlessly) for some background to the tune > "Highland Cathedral"
Anybody got a set of chords for it? It's so different from any Scottish tune I don't have much of a clue about what an appropriate accompaniment might be like. I doubt it's ever going to be my favourite tune, but it's one of the centrepieces of the New Year's Day ritual in this village. The local Gothenburg-system pub funds the village brass band, and one of the conditions is that the band plays in the pub on New Year's Day. The place turns into a giant sweat lodge, falling over is not an option, and you see people wrestling their way towards the bar with notes clenched between their teeth because getting their hands down to their pockets would take five minutes' preparation. When the crowd hits its densest, the band strikes up Highland Cathedral. A Highland piper stands on the bar to play it along with them: the noise of people talking is such that the first year I went I *couldn't hear him* from twenty feet away. I don't know if Hamish Henderson ever went but I imagine he'd have liked it. =================== <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
