>Why would you be interested in a guitar-accompanied version when
>the harp can do it so much better? I can't offhand think of *any*
>performance of a strathspey with a guitar backing where the guitar
>was doing more than hang in there producing a vaguely appropriate
>harmonic blur; it just doesn't have the rhythmic precision you need.
Jack,
The reason I like to listen to back-up is not so much the rhythmic
precision as the nice base line it offers, if the guitar/piano/? if
effecient. I think if I listen only to harp music I will get in a rut of
'sameness', when with effort it could be 'refreshing'. I am relatively new
at arranging for the harp, but I do arrange for othere instruments and have
done some interesting arrangements by listening and absorbing how other
instruments approach a tune.
<I would also discourage trying to learn strathspeys off ABC or MIDI
<playback if you aren't already familiar with the genre.
MYonly use for the abc scores is that I do not have to learn the 'tune'
by ear and it is faster to get going. I realize they are not complete. I
am fairly familiar with the strathpey rhythm but I have much to learn! The
only reason I became interested in this tune was because I need a strathspey
in A. The one you mention below sounds interesting. Where do I find the
music-either written or played?
BTW, thank you and all on the list. I stay in 'lurk mode' most of the
time, but I have learned much about Scottish music, and musicians(!) since I
have joined.
Harpin' in
Harmony,
Mary Umbarger
Try "The Laird o Thrums" for another strathspey in A. The second
half opens with a momentary shift into F sharp minor; no other tune
I know of does that, and it would sound dead effective on the harp.
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