>> I posted a C# minor one here a while back, you might give that >> a try in front of it if you want to keep the key signature...
>> T:Carfrae Frolic > This is quite an obscure one.. What's the story about how you found > this one? Not-very-systematically trawling through EVERYTHING. I think I've read through at least one printing of almost every Scottish music sheet known to the National Library of Scotland. I was probably looking for something else related to Edinburgh or flute music in a music sheet at the time. The way those sheets are archived is usually in big bound volumes of up to 250 items, often assembled by somebody around 200 years ago and left the way they came when put in the library. Since the NLS cataloguing is often not very informative, if I'm looking for one item in such a volume I'd scan through the whole thing and note down anything else that might come in handy someday for one of the projects I've got in the pipeline. One future project that requires massive survey of such music sheets is my plan to survey the whole output of Scottish women tune composers. Almost none of their stuff made it into book form, and catalogues hardly help at all (as many of them used transparent pseudonyms or published tunes under both their maiden and married names, or had married names that changed when their husbands got fancier titles). So there is no substitute for sheer grunt with that one. (Doesn't help that their music is mostly for keyboard and sometimes uses pianistic effects that get lost if you try to reduce it to a melody line - no alternative to transcribing the whole damn thing). Anyone heard of "Mr Mather", composer of the Carfrae Frolic? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> * homepage for my CD-ROMs of Scottish traditional music; free stuff on food intolerance, music and Mac logic fonts. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
