Rob MacKillop wrote; There is no such thing as the double tonic. the
term is meaningless.
This comment intrigues me. It has been said that this characteristic,
whatever you call it is the most dominant feature of of Scots music
with about 1/6 of all tunes published having this feature. I ha
Here it is, friends, in its entirety, as transcribed (carefully, with
proofreading by a loving husband) from Burn's letter of September 1793 to
George Thomson:
Auld lang syne -
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days
In a message dated 12/15/00 6:41:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Not 18th and 19th century stuff in the music section (where they have a
lot of 18th century Scots music very poorly cataloged). >>
Indeed. But, in a way, the lack of cataloguing is a plus. You end up ha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>.
> And the letter
> was about Auld Lang Syne! Just days before he died, Burns wrote to George
> Thomson,
> "One Song more, & I have done. - Auld lang syne - The air is but mediocre;
> but the following song, the old Song of the olden times, & which has never
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< There's no real need, unless you doubt the standard volumes >>
Ah, well, that's me. Ever the doubter. If I can find the original, I'll go
for that, and feel justified even if there's only one word different!
--Cynthia
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on 15/12/2000 5:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> Well, I didn't think I was uncovering anything dark and secret: I had heard
> of the quote, but never was CONVINCED it was real, and I don't think I've
> ever actually heard it in it's entirety before.
> But seeing i
Acting on the advice of the venerable Nigel Gatherer, I informed our record
publisher that The King's House was copyright B. Macleod. But PPS
(Phonographic Performance Society ???) who know about these things, deny this.
So it's trad, according to them. The controversy rages on.
Derek
Posted
> Set the
> early Auld Lang Syne tune/s into steel string DADGAD or Open G, or
standard,
> or (see below) DADFAD and do some recordings on the everyday instrument.
> Then you can disseminate the earlier tunes in an accessible form to
> vernacular musicians.
Funny you should mention that, as I hav
on 15/12/2000 2:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was at the Library of Congress yesterday searching for song histories. I
> found a book of reproductions of autograph manuscripts. Just letters,
> inscriptions, notes, things like that, from people like the Venerable Bede,
>
Hi Rob,
Well, I didn't think I was uncovering anything dark and secret: I had heard
of the quote, but never was CONVINCED it was real, and I don't think I've
ever actually heard it in it's entirety before.
But seeing it in the Bard's own hand! That was a thrill! And now I KNOW what
he said, an
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I was at the Library of Congress yesterday searching for song histories. I
> found a book of reproductions of autograph manuscripts. Just letters,
> inscriptions, notes, things like that, from people like the Venerable Bede,
> John Locke, Geoffrey Chaucer, and so on.
on 15/12/2000 9:12 am, Rob MacKillop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snipped offer from me to record Rob playing stuff)
>
> Sometime. A new CD is taking shape at the back of my mind. The problem is
> that if I record Auld Lang Syne with you and put it on my website, no record
> company would be int
>
> "One Song more, & I have done. - Auld lang syne - The air is but mediocre;
> but the following song, the old Song of the olden times, & which has never
> been in print, not even in manuscript, untill I took it down from an old
> man's Singing; is enough to recommend any air-"
I'm sorry to say
I was at the Library of Congress yesterday searching for song histories. I
found a book of reproductions of autograph manuscripts. Just letters,
inscriptions, notes, things like that, from people like the Venerable Bede,
John Locke, Geoffrey Chaucer, and so on. The contents were completely off
Rob wrote:
> ... But this opens up the debate
> about CDs or MP3 files for download - a bit off topic for this list. Making
> a CD is fairly easy. Distributing it is much harder. Yes, this is definitely
> off topic. Maybe we should discuss it privately, David?
It's quite hard to get off-topic on
> Rob, the offer remains open! The big moosic room, VS-880, two decent AKG
> condensor mikes and a seat - just come here, sit down, and we can produce
> every bit as accurate a sound as you'll get from the best studio
> (seriously). Pity it's a lang lang way from the Tay.
Sometime. A new CD is ta
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