re: Johnnie Cope
As a tune I agree. What key do you play it in?
B minor, D Minor?
Do you play a set of variations?
I've only heard it in Am and Gm (or dorian, really). I haven't learned it
myself but I do like the way Donald MacLellan plays it in Gm with
variations; my husband plays Donald's verson and says it has six parts. He
also plays a Mary MacDonald version in Am and says it has seven parts. I
seem to recall an old article in Cape Breton's Magazine in which Doug
MacPhee explained that there are two added parts sometimes played in the Am
Cape Breton setting. There was a transcription too. David says the Gm and
Am settings are quite different from each other and he was giving me an
outline of them (goes to B-flat etc), but I would have to play them side
by side to get it straight. I think one of the versions is somewhat
similar to what is in the Gesto Collection. Sorry to be so vague.
- Kate D.
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Kate Dunlay David Greenberg
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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