Hello Anthony,
Yes I mostly agree, though not on the particular point of the Peacock/
Clough issue. Surely it's the intentionally limited resources of that
repertoire which is so especially demanding on musical intelligence
and nuance. As dots, some of that stuff looks simultaneously difficu
On 1 Nov 2009, Francis Wood wrote:
> They are mostly pretty difficult. I wonder why he failed to
> additionally provide an additional body of more achievable tunes (if
> Coquetdale and the basic 'Bonny Pit Laddie' can be so termed).
> In an 'Instruction Book' which is elsewhere generous in s
thony
--- On Sun, 1/11/09, Matt Seattle
wrote:
From: Matt Seattle
Subject: [NSP] Re: [nsp] file
To: julia@nspipes.co.uk
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 3:14 PM
I agree with Julia on the idiosyncratic nature of the Kielder Jock
Hi All,
Some time ago I psode the question, If I were a 19th Century piping teacher and
the only book of music I had available was Peacock's tunes, could I grade the
tunes so that the pupil could start with the easiest and progress through more
difficult tunes until the whole book was within th
On 1 Nov 2009, at 15:14, Matt Seattle wrote:
The other tunes Fenwick included show him - imho - to be in touch
with the core repertoire of
the smallpiping tradition, presumably from the best players of the
time, e.g. his Holey Ha'penny is the Clough version, simplified but
with all the
I agree with Julia on the idiosyncratic nature of the Kielder Jock ms.
Note that the title and composer have been supplied by another hand.
The version of Barrington is one musician's rendering, and valuable as
such, but I don't think it improves on the 'original', which is what
the
On 11/1/09 9:17 AM, "Julia Say" wrote:
> Anyone wanting a simple abc conversion program might like to consider
> abcexplorer -
> can't remember the URL, but Google would find it. It's free and does a
> reasonable
> job. It's player has drone settings although they're a trifle tricky to find.
F
On 1 Nov 2009, what.me wrote:
>I sent it with a jpeg of the Barrington.
This is the abc, taken from my copy of a copy of the Jock Davidson MS.
I've written the B part out in full since it doesn't quite repeat and one bar
has
been appended in a manner I can't reproduce.
X:1
T:The Barringto
