Re: [scots-l] Thunderhead

Nigel Gatherer wrote: I have been given permission from Grey Larsen to include..."Thunderhead" in a tune collection...Can anyone help with [chords] ? Celia Wright said: Why not ask the composer? I'm embarrassed. After receiving his permission to use the tune, I'd feel I was bothering him

Re: [scots-l] new subscription flood?

Toby said: Has someone added the scots-l info. to a new webpage...There have been more new sign-ups to Scots-L in the last two weeks then there was in the last six months of last year. I would be interested in finding out how the word suddenly spread about this humble list... 1) The

Re: [scots-l] Old Time Wedding Reels

nigel asked: The reason for my choosing this setting is its simplicity, but I wonder whether I should be more true to, say, the Buddy MacMaster version. I'm also considering including the whole set of Old Time Wedding Reels, #1, #2 and #3 ("John of Badenyon", "Hamish the Carpenter" and "Put

Re: [scots-l] Old Time Wedding Reels

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Derek Hoy wrote: nigel asked: The reason for my choosing this setting is its simplicity, but I wonder whether I should be more true to, say, the Buddy MacMaster version. I'm also considering including the whole set of Old Time Wedding Reels, #1, #2 and #3 ("John

Re: [scots-l] Old Time Wedding Reels

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Wendy Galovich wrote: For whatever reason I always tend to think of John Campbell's recording of that set as the "definitive" Cape Breton version.. Not that there aren't other good ones, of course. I think it *is* the definitive recording of the

Re: [scots-l] Out on the Ocean

Jack Campin wrote: [re "Out On the Ocean"] ...It's "The Rock and a Wee Pickle Tow", originally a Lowland women's spinning song, which got all over Scotland in a zillion different versions. For a truly wacky one, try "Doon da Rooth" in the Shetland collection "Da Mirrie Dancers"... "Doon

Re: [scots-l] Out on the Ocean

Oops - missed out the footnote. Nigel Gatherer wrote: Tom Anderson's assertion that it was a spinning tune [1] [1] = Incidentally, the late Alan Bruford called the spinning tunes "...an unlikely animal". -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Scottish Music Pages:

[scots-l] RE: scots-l-digest V1 #291

Re inquiry about Cape Breton Old Time Wedding Reels from Nigel. They are transcribed in the book, Traditional Celtic Violin music of Cape Breton, by Kate Dunlay and David Greenberg (1996) on pages 44-47. #1 is as played by Dan J. Campbell and Angus Allan Gillis on a 1930s recording that Dunlay

Re: [scots-l] Thunderhead

Sue Richards said: This is a great tune. Can you use the same chords that were on the album? Which album? I've never heard it, whatever. Back in the mid to late '80's Grey recorded it on an album by the same name. With Malcolm Dalglish, maybe ? They did a lot of concerts

Re: [scots-l] new subscription flood?

I was told of the list by a very friendly dulcimer player, who I spoke with at length over many glasses of mead at our local renaissance festival : ) hope you dont mind having me as I live in Detroit, and we are seriously lacking in any sort of historical music and culture of this

[scots-l] Hector the Hero

I don't know the answer to this, but I can't think of any Skinner tunes which are based on earlier melodies. It's my guess that although he may have based the form on pibroch, the melody is all original. Doesn't even look like any pibroch form I can think of. I seem to remember "The Duke of

Re: [scots-l] Hector the Hero

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Jack Campin wrote: I was fairly impressed with the first of the Radio Scotland programmes about Skinner - gave a good feel of the times. I certainly didn't know about him going messages for Peter Milne's drugs. (Who was that "Aly MacBain" who was playing the fiddle,

Re: [scots-l] new subscription flood?

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Jeffrey Friedman wrote: I think his playing is almost poles opposite from Buddy MacMaster, another great fiddler from Cape Breton. Unfortunately I cannot explain John Campbell's playing, you have to hear it for yourself :-) I hope I did his playing some verbal

Re: [scots-l] Out on the Ocean

In a message dated 9/12/00 10:43:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's "The Rock and a Wee Pickle Tow", originally a Lowland women's spinning song, which got all over Scotland in a zillion different versions. For a truly wacky one, try "Doon da Rooth" in the Shetland

[scots-l] Re: Sheet music (fwd)

This was sent personally to me, can someone help this lad? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 22:41:20 +0100 From: iyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sheet music Hello I am trying to source the sheet music (organ / piano)