[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The sad thing is that to be a master harper according to the Scottish Harp Society one must be able to play a March/Strathspey/Reel set and not much else. The repertoire requirement is 40 tunes, 75% of which is MSR's. (one also has to have 10 "airs" which are broadly defined. For example, Piobaireachd is classified as an air).Very sad indeed, as I'm quite sure the clarsach was not originally used for any of that.
Dancing maybe, but not marches - and the strathspey hadn't even been thought of!
To be a master harper, you should really have to extemporise an accompaniment for a recitationally sung eulogy, welcome, lament, nuptial, or whatever!
And send people to sleep. That's essential... :-)
David
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