RE: [scots-l] Session Tonight - Where are my tunes?
OK. Best of Luck. Let us know how it goes and what tunes are played. Any further word yet on your Mandolin Workshop in February? Ted > -Original Message- > From: Nigel Gatherer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 14 December 2001 20:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [scots-l] Session Tonight - Where are my tunes? > > I've been invited to a mini-session in Crieff tonight. Yippee! It's at > the British Legion. Boo! It's the first session I've been to for a > while (not counting the weekly slow session I run in Edinburgh). > Yippee! I'm a little nervous and having difficulty remembering what I > know. Boo! But I once wrote down a couple hundred tunes I knew to > remind me. Yippee! But I can't find it. Boo! Doesn't matter, I'll be > fine when we get started. Yippee! Wish me luck. > > -- > Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ > > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To > subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: > http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Session Tonight - Where are my tunes?
>Yippee!... >Boo!... >I'm a little nervous and having difficulty remembering what I know Nigel, thanks for reassuring all of us that we are not alone in our musical insecurities! I used to make lists of tunes I knew too and occasionally I still find them in various files. Usually there are a bunch of tunes I've forgotten on the old lists! - Kate D. -- Kate Dunlay & David Greenberg Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada http://www.total.net/~dungreen Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Wake Up Call
Steve Wyrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The RSCDS usually publishes the title tunes along with the dances so I'd > think it would be available. Maybe it's just not a very interesting tune? > I'll keep my eyes open for a copy of Miss Milligan's Miscellany. The Miscellany books don't come with music attached to the dances. However, there are two books of music edited by the late Nan Main (a well-respected RSCDS pianist in her day) that do contain somewhat-canonical tunes for a number of the dances in Miss Milligan's Miscellany, many of which were composed by Nan M. herself, but there's also a good smattering of traditional tunes. For `Gramachie', one of these books suggests a tune by the name of `Provost Skene's House' (by Nan M.), and since that is also the tune recorded by Muriel Johnstone, widely regarded as the current _grande dame_ of SCD music, this is probably as good as it gets for the dance as far as the RSCDS is concerned. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's the ego trip of the century to write your own operating system. -- Linus Torvalds Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Session Tonight - Where are my tunes?
Dearest Nigel, You sound like a nervous wreck! Which is somewhat curious since you've played in public many many time. Have a spot of something nice to drink and you'll be just fine. Wishing you well, Nancy Hart On Friday, December 14, 2001, at 03:09 PM, Nigel Gatherer wrote: > I've been invited to a mini-session in Crieff tonight. Yippee! It's at > the British Legion. Boo! It's the first session I've been to for a > while (not counting the weekly slow session I run in Edinburgh). > Yippee! I'm a little nervous and having difficulty remembering what I > know. Boo! But I once wrote down a couple hundred tunes I knew to > remind me. Yippee! But I can't find it. Boo! Doesn't matter, I'll be > fine when we get started. Yippee! Wish me luck. > > -- > Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ > > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To > subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: > http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[scots-l] Session Tonight - Where are my tunes?
I've been invited to a mini-session in Crieff tonight. Yippee! It's at the British Legion. Boo! It's the first session I've been to for a while (not counting the weekly slow session I run in Edinburgh). Yippee! I'm a little nervous and having difficulty remembering what I know. Boo! But I once wrote down a couple hundred tunes I knew to remind me. Yippee! But I can't find it. Boo! Doesn't matter, I'll be fine when we get started. Yippee! Wish me luck. -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Wake Up Call
John Chambers wrote: > > Just a comment from a couple of weeks back: I did take versions of > the two tunes called "Gramachree" along to the dance event, and it > was pretty much agreed that neither of these tunes was what was > needed. The jig was out because the dance is a strathspey. The air > was a more likely fit, since airs are sometimes used for strathspeys. > But we just couldn't make it sound right. So we picked some random > strathspey tunes that we knew, and the dancers seemed happy. > > Maybe there's a version of "Gramachree" that we don't know of, that > would work for an air-type strathspey. The usual sources for Scottish > dances seem to imply that "Gramachie" is a tune that everyone should > know. But none of us seem to know it, and it isn't in any of our > books. The dance was published by Miss Milligan (Miscellany v.2) > without a tune, and she also implied that the tune was well-known. > > Maybe I should ask on the strathspey list, for future reference. > > | Looks like a minor spelling problem. According to Andrew Kuntz: > | > | GRAD(H) MO CROID(H)E. AKA and see "The harp that once through Tara's > | halls," "Gramachree," "Gramachree Molly," "Will you go to Flanders," > | "Little Molly O." Irish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard. AB. Roche > | Collection, 1983, Vol. 1; No. 28, pg. 15. > | > | Recognise it now? > | > | Ted > | > | > | > -Original Message- > | > From: John Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > | > Sent: 28 November 2001 21:52 > | > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > Subject: Re: [scots-l] Wake Up Call > | > > | > Nigel writes: > | > | I demand that: > | > ... > | > | OK, you get the idea: unless this mailing list really is as dead as > | > | Patie Birnie's mare, let's get some action going. I've never known it > | > | to be as quiet as this. Me? Oh no, I've no time for such frivolities. > | > | Talk to me, people! > | > > | > Heh. One question that just came up here: Can I play a tune called > | > "Gramachie"? Well, no, I can't, because I can't find it anywhere. My > | > Tune Finder has never heard of it, and none of the pile of trad tune > | > books on my shelf seems to contain it. The title sounds somehow > | > familiar, but I can't think of how it sounds. Anyone out there know > | > it? Got an abc version? > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To >subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html George Ogle's song "Gramachree Molly" (Molly Ashtore/ As down on Banna's Banks I strayed) was apparently first published with music in 'The London Magazine', Sept., 1774 (BUCEM). Song and tune are in 'The Scots Musical Museum', I, #46, 1787, Ogle's song being the 2nd song to the tune. An ABC of the SMM tune and a copy of "Will you go to Flanders" from Oswalds CPC are in file S2.HTM on my website. Over a dozen early copies of the tune are listed in the Irish tune title index on my website. 'Gramachree' is corrupt Gaelic for 'love of my heart'. Bruce Olson Roots of Folk: Old British Isles popular and folk songs, tunes, broadside ballads at my no-spam website - www.erols.com/olsonw or just http://www.erols.com/olsonw";> Click Motto: Keep at it; muddling through always works. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
