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
I've put it on my webpage
[1]http://members.lycos.co.uk/adrianschofield/
Under Adrian's playing technique..
Barrington Hornpipe
Adrian
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On 11/1/09 9:17 AM, Julia Say julia@nspipes.co.uk 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
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
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
Matt, I think we have to be very careful when making assumptions from
sparse written sources. What you say might be true we have no way of
being certain but the evidence I've come across seems to suggest that
Fenwick's selection was not necessarily the best examples of piping at
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
Anthony Robb wrote:
dot reading was an extremely rare skill at the time
If you mean specifically among players of the NSP (or the fiddle, then
perhaps - I wouldn't know.
But if you mean in general, then that is a far too sweeping statement.
Musical literacy was my no means uncommon, even among
It just occurred to me that I ought to have added:
To get an idea of the culture that fostered musical literacy even among very
ordinary people, just read D.H. Lawrence, specifically Sons and Lovers.
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
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