[scots-l] Re: ABCs
Matt Seattle wrote: Nigel, are you sure you got the mode right for Cassino? Sounds decidedly odd IMHO! Matt spots the deliberate mistake this week - glad you're awake, Matt! Yes, of course you're right. The key it's normally in is A dorian - I think - but on the record I took it from it was played in E dorian. Sorry for that! Iain MacInnes is a piper who has played with The Tannahill Weavers and Smalltalk (the band then metamorphosed into Ossian mark 2), and I loved his work on the Smalltalk album, and was particularly taken with his rendition of The Heights of Cassino. He later became a student of mine when he joined my mandolin class; I got quite a shock when I realised it was him, but he's such a very nice man. I asked him about that recording, and he told me he played it on an A low whistle, so had he played it on a D whistle, it would indeed have been in A dorian. Yah boo sucks. -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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]ABCs
Nigel Gatherer writes: | Matt Seattle wrote: | | Nigel, are you sure you got the mode right for Cassino? Sounds | decidedly odd IMHO! | | Matt spots the deliberate mistake this week - glad you're awake, Matt! | | Yes, of course you're right. The key it's normally in is A dorian - I | think - but on the record I took it from it was played in E dorian. | Sorry for that! Hmmm ... It sounds better to me if I play it as Amix. This is the same key sig as Edorian, of course, but the tonic is clearly A. So should the c's be sharp or natural? Part of why I'd put it into Amix is that it looks and sounds like a highland pipe tune. But I suppose it doesn't have to be. Maybe I'll try it in a few other scales and see how it works. A hijaz seems to work pretty well, so maybe it's really a Turkish pipe tune? 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] Re: ABCs
The Heights of Cassino seems to be consistently in Dmaj. See The Session.org for abc, sheetmusic and a fascinating discussion of the WWII battle. The postings, rather new, may have come out of this discussion. Except for a note or two, the Session version is, for example, identical to the setting in Ceol na Fidhle -- Highland tunes for the Fiddle, Volume Three, page 23. http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/3833 CA 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] Re: ABCs
Matt spots the deliberate mistake this week - glad you're awake, Matt! Yes Nigel, but I was really wondering whether it should be mixolydian rather than dorian - ? 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] Re: ABCs
John Chambers wrote: ...It sounds better to me if I play it as Amix. This is the same key sig as Edorian, of course, but the tonic is clearly A. So should the c's be sharp or natural? Sharp all the way. Of course you're right, John - Amix. My infamous fumbling when it comes to talking about modes is evident. Part of why I'd put it into Amix is that it looks and sounds like a highland pipe tune. But I suppose it doesn't have to be. It's a pipe tune, but the reason for offering this alternative way of playing it is that it sounds wonderful. When I first transposed it I tried to stay faithful to the way it was played on the record. It's a lovely, haunting tune, isn't it? As I spend a lot of time driving these days, I'm always listening to music, and in traffic jams I try to learn some tunes. I heard a nice tune on a Deaf Shepherd recording this week - Clanranald. As the queues of cars crawled along, I worked it out on the whistle which is always in the side pocket. It was probably a straightforward reel originally, but the band plays it as a slow reel. Aha - I've just looked it up, and one alternative name for it is given as MacKinnon's Brook - isn't that a Cape Breton setting? Kate Dunlay says may be related - I think more certainly. Can't work out the proper mode. Or, more truthfully, can't be bothered working it out. X:734 T:Clanranald S:Deaf Shepherd Z:Nigel Gatherer L:1/8 M:4/4 K:Em Z | E3 B GEE^c | dDDA FDAF | E3 B GE B/c/d | FDAF BEE :| f | geBA GFEg | fdAG FEDf | geBA GFE^c| dBAF BEE f | geBA GFEg | fdAG FEDf | gbfa efde | BdAF BEE || -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
