Rita Hamilton wrote: > I'm wondering just what you would use as your music source books.
I've been thinking about this a bit more, and I'm strongly tempted to include 'The Nineties Collection' (Canongate Books, Edinburgh 1995, ISBN 0 86241 599 3). It is a collection of "new Scottish tunes in traditional style," but the point is that more and more tunes from the book are being played and spread around. When I first got the book (in the '90s) I played through it, tune by tune, and to be honest I wasn't very impressed; on the one hand I thought the selection wasn't brilliant when it could have been, and on the other hand they didn't include any of my tunes. Of course they didn't know of my existence, but that's neither here nor there. However, since then many of the tunes have grown on me, and my opinion has changed. This is a valuable collection. Tunes that are being played widely - off the top of my head - include Creag an Righ ==+== Marni Swanson of the Grey Coast ==+== The Setting Sun ==+== Mr and Mrs MacLean of Snaigow ==+== Father Tom ==+== Crabbit Shona ==+== The Road to Banff ==+== The Jig Runrig ==+== Da Eye Wifie and the featured composers include Phil Cunningham, Freeland barbour, Alasdair Fraser, Jim Sutherland, Aly Bain, Brian McNeill, Iain Macleod, Davy Tulloch, Simon Thoumire, Patsy Seddon, Mary Macmaster, our own Stuart Eydmann (are you still lurking, Stuart?), Billy Jackson, Eddie McGuire, and the list goes on and on. In the sixties JS Kerr's company published 'The Thistle Collection', modern compositions by musicians of the day (inc Bobby Crowe, Addie Harper, Tommy Ford, Bill Murray, Tom Anderson, etc). I wonder if it was the 'Nineties Collection' of its day? -- 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
