Re: [scots-l] Session Tunes
Cynthia wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps Mrs Crawford of Donside would go well with it? Where did you get it, Cynthia? It's on page 187 of the Skye Collection, identified as a reel. I transposed it from G minor to A minor so I can play it on my harp tuned with just the f sharp. (the melody is gapped). Nigel, where is *your* Mrs. Crawford from? I've heard rumors of a strathspey...is your Mrs. C it? I first heard it played by Gillian, but she told me that it was in Jerry Holland's Collection, and indeed it is: page 31. Jerry apparently learned it from Bill Lamey. I actually recognise the tune from elsewhere - I'm sure I've heard it on record, so maybe it's got another name. It'll come back to me. Just not now. It's in D: X:298 T:Mrs Crawford B:Jerry Holland's Collection N:Somewhat simplified by N.G. Z:Nigel Gatherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] M:4/4 L:1/8 K:D A2 AA B/A/G/F/ AB/c/|de fe dBBd|A2 AA B/A/G/F/ dA| B/A/G/F/ A/G/F/E/ D4::ab af dA df|1 ef g/f/e/d B2 BA| ab af dA df|ef/g/ a/g/f/e d4:|2 ef g/f/e/d B2 d2| AB AF Ad B/A/G/F/|E/D/E/F/ A/G/F/E/ D4|] -- 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] Session Tunes
Jack Campin wrote: John Stephen of Chance Inn (Angus Fitchett) ...I'm going to persuade the whistlers to bring in an F whistle for this one. Nah, C whistle That's what I MEANT, of course. :-S -- 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] Session Tunes
Philip Whittaker wrote: How about Rebecca Knorr's Johnstown Reel - a tune that is supposed to be played slowly... I have actually played that tune on Ian Anderson's Radio Scotland show along with another new tune, The Underwater Gardener by Sarah Northcott. I agree, good tune (but we didn't play it very slowly, I have to say!). -- 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
[scots-l] Mrs. Crawford
Nigel, where is *your* Mrs. Crawford from? I first heard it played by Gillian, but she told me that it was in Jerry Holland's Collection, and indeed it is: page 31. Jerry apparently learned it from Bill Lamey. I actually recognise the tune from elsewhere - I'm sure I've heard it on record, so maybe it's got another name. Mrs. Crawford's Favorite Strathspey is in Gow's 4th Book. The tune happens to be sitting on my desk at the moment. It goes nicely with Marshall's Miss Gordon of Fochaber's Strathspey (if you like to do that Cape Breton thing of playing tunes together which start similarly). Mrs. Crawford's is almost the same as Forneth House which Robert Petrie claimed as his own composition. Maybe Nathaniel Gow reset it (it's a bit better as Mrs. Crawford's, in my opinion). - 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] Session Tunes
Dinkies The more I hear those two tunes the less I like them. Dunno why but they just don't grow on me. what might be a hackneyed tune to an old hand is a wonderful, exciting tune to someone who is learning. I've taught Dinkies to various fiddlers because it's much more impressive than it is difficult. This is useful in performance circumstances, although at home I might be amusing myself with quite different tunes. There seems to be an appetite for new compositions. I think this is a good thing, because there is a whole load of young musicians who are getting enthusiastic about new Scots tunes I agree that this is really important and indicates a healthy tradition. You see the same in Cape Breton. I'm happy that because of this list I can get an idea of what the popular new tunes are in Scotland (even though I have a hard enough time keeping up here). Thanks for the tip about the Nineties Collection, Nigel. I will have to get hold of one. - 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] Session Tunes
Nigel Gatherer wrote: I'm compiling a new list of tunes for my Slow Session class... The latest list, including a few that you WILL have heard of! REELS Coire An Lochan (D Muir) My Love She's But a Lassie Yet Islay Rant (Charlie McKerron) Harris Dance Jack broke da Prison Door (Shetland) Johnstown Reel (Rebecca Knorr) The Keel Row St Anne's Reel Wind that Shakes the Barley The Sound of Sleat Dick Gossip's (Irish?) Far From Home (Irish?) Concertina Reel (Irish) The Shore Bar (Kenney) The Back o' Benachie STRATHSPEYS Braes o' Tulliemet Miss Drummond of Perth Captain Campbell The Warlocks (Lowe) MARCHES 72nd Farewell to Aberdeen The Battle of the Somme The Drunken Piper The Barren Rocks of Aden JIGS Jamie Rae Stan Chapman's Jig Scarce o Tatties Price of a Pig Miss Campbell of Sheerness Paddy's Leather Breeches Thunderhead (Larsen) The Sailor's Wife Cape Breton Jig #2 Charlie Hunter (Bobby Macleod) HORNPIPES New High Level (Fitchett) Off to California Crossing the Minch AIRS/WALTZES Miss Rowan Davies (Phil Cunningham) Margaret's Waltz Yellow Haired laddie East Parkside (Gatherer) Killiecrankie Major Molle -- 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
[scots-l] Stock and horn
At the weekend I purchased an 1880 facsimile reprint of the 1788 illustrated edition, with music, of Allan Ramsay's 'The Gentle Shepherd'. The first picture shows Patie with his new ivory bound pear-wood 'flute' (a recorder), and on the ground is what must be Roger's 'stock and horn' - it appears to be a reed mouthpiece like a bombard, followed by a straight barrel with six fingerholes, on the end of which is a cow's horn acting as a trumpet bell. It is mentioned in the lyric as 'stock and horn' or I would not have known what this was. The implication is that the sweet flute/recorder beats the rough shepherd's 'stock and horn' sound - Roger's would-be girlfriend tells him to stop the racket as soon as he starts tuning his reed. Does anyone make these now? David, Kelso 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] Stock and horn
At the weekend I purchased an 1880 facsimile reprint of the 1788 illustrated edition, with music, of Allan Ramsay's 'The Gentle Shepherd'. The first picture shows Patie with his new ivory bound pear-wood 'flute' (a recorder), and on the ground is what must be Roger's 'stock and horn' - it appears to be a reed mouthpiece like a bombard, followed by a straight barrel with six fingerholes, on the end of which is a cow's horn acting as a trumpet bell. It is mentioned in the lyric as 'stock and horn' or I would not have known what this was. The implication is that the sweet flute/recorder beats the rough shepherd's 'stock and horn' sound - Roger's would-be girlfriend tells him to stop the racket as soon as he starts tuning his reed. Does anyone make these now? I heard Robin Huw Bowen and a couple of pals playing these at the Edinburgh Harp Festival a while ago. So somebody in Wales makes them (I think Robin told a story about getting his made, the maker was remarkably eccentric). They sounded more like the Turkish mey than a bombarde, i.e. a bit softer and more clarinet-like. The Welsh word is pibgorn. Somewhere I have a preprint of an article from the New New Grove about them, by the world's leading expert in what little there is to know about them (I forget his name, he's from the north-east). The text of The Gentle Shepherd drops an interesting hint about its musical capabilities. === http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ === Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
