[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking forward to summarizing all of your suggestions on the books. My > library includes O'Neill's. Would anyone want to suggest some neat Scottish > tunes from that book...or perhaps, just send some of your playlists to serve > as a source list for the individual titles. From there, I can visit some of > these suggestions to determine which books might be more to my liking.
Watch out if you have Krassen's version of O'Neill's Music of Ireland; he adds a ton of ornamentation, almost all of which is incorrect for the Scottish versions of the tunes. The reprint of the original which I think is from Mel Bay publishers would be better since it doesn't try to notate the Irish ornamentation (however playing Hammer Dulcimer I'm sure you ignore all that stuff anyway), but I agree with Toby, the Strathspey is very important to Scottish music and you won't find any of those in O'Neill's so I'm not sure you can get a good idea of the style from his books. -Steve -- Steve Wyrick - Concord, California Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
