>> I'm wondering just what you would use as your music source books. >> Would you mind sharing? > Hi Rita. Luckily I had compiled such a list back at the beginning of > April, so here goes: >1. Clan Dumphries Miscellany - a collection of sheep-calls, > cattle-summoning songs, mussel-sellers' ditties, etc, > adapted for the German Flute and Harp
I recognize that! It's a shameless plagiarism of the Newtongrange Collection. The tunes all started in Edinburgh - originally shanties from the shovellers who went round the closes collecting fertilizer in the mornings, marches from guilds like the Leather Basque Makers of Broughton, restaurant-owners' songs for enticing pigeons and stray cats, etc. Ted Hastings wrote: >> I have never had much time for the Balnain House approach of gratuitous >> rewrites of pipe tunes for the fiddle, shifting mode and range, with no >> indication of what they've done; > Despite the fact that my list doesn't include a single book published by > Balnain House. Fair cop, I was mixing them up with Taigh na Teud. =================== <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
