[scots-l] FW: Contagious

I've tried to get off this list without success (I'm receiving 50 emails a day from various lists), so maybe this will help: Rob A teacher asks her class to use the word 'contagious'. Roland the class swot, gets up and says, Last year I got the measles and my Mum said it was contagious.

RE: [scots-l] Lochaber No More

Ross Flowers wrote: Does anyone know if there is a good version of Lochaber No More in either ABC format or GIF format on the web? There is a jpeg on my website of the tune as found in Robert Bremner's Instructions for the guitar of 1758. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.robmackillop.com

[scots-l] cadbol stane

Has anyone got a line drawing o the Hilton o Cadbol Pictish stane? Or any other image of it? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.robmackillop.com Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to:

Re: [scots-l] Oswald's CPC

Well, that's good news - I'll have to get a bigger pocket though! It is also going to be published on-line for free in a facsimile edition with notes by John Purser...but that's a secret too! John and Alistair Hardie are not on speaking terms... I think that's very possibly a secret toonae

[scots-l] I forgot to mention..

You are welcome to the launch - at the Local Studies Department, The Wellgate Library, Wellgate Centre, Dundee on Friday 25th May at 5.30 to 6.30 (free wine!!). Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.robmackillop.com Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To

Re: [scots-l] Oswald's CPC

The Hardie Press are to publish the Cally Pocket Companion later this year. That is a secret, by the way, I am not meant to know, so don't tell anyone else either... Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.robmackillop.com Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To

Re: Re:[scots-l] celtic font

If you are using Win95 or higheryou should have a "Celtic" looking font already in your machine. It's called "American Uncial" I have Win95 and Word2000 but no American Unical. I have now downloaded four different 'Celtic' fonts, which should keep me happy for a while. Thanks to

[scots-l] celtic font

Does anyone know where I can get a so-called 'celtic' font (sorry - hate to use the 'C' word in public)? Preferably for free, but if it's good I don't mind paying a little for it. While I'm at it, are there any contacts for anyone specialising in historical Scottish fonts - non Gaelic? Rob [EMAIL

Re: [scots-l] another place for Rob (or maybe Nigel) to visit

Susan Tichy wrote: In Vietnam I saw lutes in museums with frets about three inches high, and lutes being played were quite similar. Also a three-stringed instrument they called a guitar, though I never saw one of those played. In the Hanoi old quarter, where each street specializes in one

Re: [scots-l] another place for Rob (or maybe Nigel) to visit

The kobza is fairly weel-kent tae ethnomusicologists and organologists. It is sill used in parts of Hungary as well, and is regarded as a folk instrument. It certainly does look similar to the Melrose lute. The lute seems to have been born in Persia 2 to 3 thousand years ago and was known as the

[scots-l] 30 days have september, april, june...

OK. 1st March. The least of my worries! Rob 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] me again

Re Turkey and Morocco trip - big article in today's Scotsman, plus great photie. Rob 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] Stirling University Guitar Summer School

Adavance notice. Stirling University Guitar Summer School. Please pass this message on to any guitarist you know. SCOTTISH TRADITIONAL GUITAR Course Ref: S01MDSTG Non-residential Fee: 74 Residential Fee: 99 Tutor: ROB MACKILLOP Weekend of 30 June 1 July 2001 This course will cater for all

Re: [scots-l] Fw: Glaswegian Pie

Is that THE Steve Archibald? Naw. A heid-the-ba fae Buckhind. 'THE' Steve Erchibald niver heidit a ba in his life. Rob 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] Fw: Glaswegian Pie

- Original Message - From: "Archibald, Steve" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 February 2001 17:14 Subject: Glaswegian Pie For the Churchill Scholarship Concert : Glaswegian Pie (Sung to the tune of American Pie, played on the lute) A long long time ago, I

Re: [scots-l] tripping

But you ken a' this already! Eh. Rob 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] Oswald's frosty reception

I've just had a knock-back from the Crail Festival. Remember, James Oswald - Scotland's finest 18th-century musician - was born there to a poor family and rose to become the Chamber Composer to George III and muse to Robert Burns. I offered to have the launch of my CD of Oswald's 'guittar' music

Re: [scots-l] Shetland geetarr

Dave Francis wrote: a different chord for every beat. It's worth listening to how the Cape Breton pianists accompany strathspeys for clues on timing and rhythms. Yes, after all these descriptions of the so-called Shetland guitar style, I was wondering if there was any connection with the CB

Re: [scots-l] Shetland geetarr

They also switched to mandolin at times to do some melody stuff. And that led to the Shetland banjo style :) Mercifully outwith my remit! Rob Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to:

Re: [scots-l] Shetland geetarr

Rob, on mp3.com recently I found an artist claiming to have tunes from 15th Scottish mandora (sic) MS rearranged for (wait for this) the scalloped fret guitar with ornaments derived from Indian sitar technique. I did listen to one such track, title like 'I met her in the the meadow' or such.

Re: [scots-l] concert

Stuart Eydmann wrote: In connection with your previous message regarding Burn's as a potential 'Negro driver' - no doubt you are famous with the super portrait of the Glasgow tobacco merchant Glassford and his family in which one of his seven children is playing an early guitar. Were the

[scots-l] concert

PUBLICITY RELEASE Crawford Art Centre, St Andrews, Thursday 8th February, 7.30pm. A concert of Scottish, French, Italian and Spanish music of mainly the 17th and 18th centuries for lutes, guitars, percussion and dance. Rob MacKillop is recognised internationally as the foremost interpreter

Re: [scots-l] Was Burns a racist?

Was the slave ship anything to do with negroes? All the comments about Gaelic slaves are really interesting and I hope to read more about them on this List. Keep them coming. However, I orginally asked about Burns the 'Negro-driver' - no Gaels mentioned there, nor in his 'Slaves Lament' which

Re: [scots-l] Was Burns a racist?

Susan Tichy wrote: ...or thought in a despairing moment that he would have to do whatever offered itself... much as a musician might contemplate a brokerage firm on a really, really bad day. Are you really comparing being a Negro-driver to working for a brokerage firm? That latter might be

[scots-l] before or after the beat

Someone mentioned that the birl is played on the beat, which is what I would expect, although I am not a fiddler. The only reference I have found to ornaments in Scottish music being played before the beat is in Alastair Hardie's 'The Caledonian Companion'. He published my traditional guitar

Re: [scots-l] Scottish Study Tour

I'm de-lurking here to announce a study-tour to Scotland next summer, for any New Worlders who may be interested. How about Old Worlders? - it sounds great. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.robmackillop.com Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To

Re: [scots-l] Jimmy Shand dies

In my opinion Shand's compositions aren't great; they're competent and good enough to fulfil their function - dancing - but there are not many of them that will survive time. Well Niel Gow wasn't a 'great' composer either, with one or two exceptions, but has stayed the course. Someone else

[scots-l] uploads

I have uploaded a short essay on Scottish lute music which might be of interest. I have also uploaded a Scottish Lute and Guitar Discussion Board, a dedicated forum for those with an interest in those subjects. Go to: http://www.robmackillop.com and click on either The Scottish Lute or Discussion

Re: [scots-l] auld lang syne uploads

provides free what others try to charge $5 a sheet to download. Damn. I knew there was something I forgot! For the moment, everything is free. Rob Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to:

[scots-l] auld lang syne uploads

OK. I've uploaded the earliest known version of Auld Lang Syne, from the Balcarres MS c.1695-1700 as a straight transcription, but also as a basic guitar arrangement in DADGAD tuning. I have also uploaded both the versions in the Scots Musical Museum (numbers 25 and 413) for comparison. And also

Re: [scots-l] auld sang line\Rory Dall

Thanks for clearing up the Dall's. I read Johnson's comments a few years back, but must have forgotten it. Rob 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] auld sang line

Hmmm. I'd just started plans for an expedition to find the fabled Third Tonic The first being whisky, the second Irn Bru, - the third? Rob 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] The King's House Shock

Isn't Elvis on this list? Jings! Crivens! Help ma Boab! Dinna tell naebdy, like. Ken? Elvis 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] auld sang line\Rory Dall

Attributed to him while in Scotland are- Da Mihi Manum, I am sure you must know, but I mention it just in case you don't, Da Mihi Manum appears in both the Wemyss c.1640 and Balcarres c.1695 manuscripts. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.robmackillop,com Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional

Re: [scots-l] auld sang line\Rory Dall

The Straloch version and Oswald version are two entirely different pieces with no connection whatsoever. I recorded the Straloch ports - 5 of them - on 'Flowers of the Forest'. Oswald must have heard of an old piece, thought lost, and tried to summon it out of the 'air', so to speak. For a harp

Re: [scots-l] auld sang line

Rob, you must ask the entire scots-l to append their signatures and large cash contributions to your campaign to erect a suitable memorial to Mr Oswald in Craill. After your lecture when you described how he came from this picturesque little fishing village, we had to go, even though it did

Re: [scots-l] auld sang line

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 have

[scots-l] auld sang line

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

Re: [scots-l] Re: Auld auld lang syne

I wonder which version is in your c. 1695 collection, Rob? Do you have access to the Museum, can you compare and edify us? If I find the time, I shall put the Balcarres version on my website sometime during the next week. It shares similarities with the Vol 4 version of SMM, but many

Re: [scots-l] Re: Auld auld lang syne

I have a earlier tune that the one we're familiar with...did you know that? How was I to know? Tell all, please! Wait a minute. What do you mean by 'the one we're familiar with'? I have been familiar with two versions for many years now. The one everyone sings when they are legless, and the

[scots-l] hello

Hello, I have just joined this list and wonder if there exists an archive of postings, or FAQ file? Cheers, Rob http://www.robmackillop.com 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] hello [Rob MacKillop]

I'm assuming this is the same Rob MacKillop Sure is. Thanks Kate. Cheque in the post. I'll probably lurk for a while, then jump in and kick ass! Rob http://www.robmackillop.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe

Re: [scots-l] hello

What's your involvement with Scots music? My website will tell you most of what you need to know, but basically I have been active in the research, performance and recording of historical Scottish music from the medieval times to around Burns' time, mainly on lutes and guitars, citterns, etc. I