Composite followup to three messages. [Oswald] : I see in the Scotman that there is a music festival soon in Crail. An : obvious opportunity for an ensemble specialising in the music of one : of the Scottish masters of the baroque and traditional styles. I wonder : whether the organisers even know or care?
Rob McKillop posted here a couple of years ago about his attempts to interest them in an event devoted to Oswald's music. They said "we'd rather have a slide show about Antarctic penguins" or something to that effect. [Bruce Olson's list of now-traditional tunes Oswald composed] * That's all that come to the top of my mind at present, but I'm * sure others can add more to this short list. According to Manson in "Hamilton's Universal Tune Book", "The Hen's March to the Midden" comes from "Fortunatus", the unfinished opera that was Oswald's last work. I haven't seen it, the nearest copy to me is in Dundee. [Caledonian Pocket Companion] > I heard that someone was going to publish a facsimile, but haven't > seen it yet - any news? If not, a good project for Jack maybe? There are, I think, two such projects. They started as one, but the parties involved had a terminal disagreement of some sort (I don't know the details and don't want to). I was talking to Alistair Hardie at the launch party for David Johnson's reprint, and he said his CPC edition was going ahead, with somebody doing detailed notes on all the tunes. He didn't give any dates. As Rob MacKillop posted here on 9 May 2001: + The Hardie Press are to publish the Cally Pocket Companion later + this year. I'm more interested in the popular-culture end of things at the moment, which is why I'm doing Aird - his books were practical tools, not the almost-coffee-table stuff that most facsimile publishers like doing. Another reason for sticking to collections of fairly short pieces is they're the ones where my CD-ROM design is most effective - you often won't need to print them out at all, and if you do you've got all the advantages of having individual sheets. And I'm hoping that the more different CD-ROMs I have available the sooner the music-book-buying public gets the idea and starts digging in its collective pocket. One is a "what is that thing?", two is "oh, you've done that too?", three starts to look like a product category. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music. ----> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "scots-l" at this site, please <---- Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
