[scots-l] Session Tunes
I'm compiling a new list of tunes for my Slow Session class to learn over the next few months. I've jotted some down - first thoughts, really, but I'd be very grateful to hear your opinions, or tunes you think are wonderful at the moment. New High Level Hornpipe (Andrew Rankine) Jamie Rae Walking On the Moon (Addie Harper) Coire An Lochan Primrose Lasses (Cape Breton style) Stan Chapman's Jig (Jerry Holland) Dinkies Concertina Reel High Drive (Gordon Duncan) Dick Gossip's Major Molle (Andrew Gow) Scarce o' Tatties Crossing the Minch (Ramsay) The Sound of Sleat (D Mackinnon) John Stephen of Chance Inn (Angus Fitchett) The Harsh February (Phil Cunningham) The Setting Sun (Ian Hardie) -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ 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] Re: scots-l-digest V1 #420
| In a message dated 6/9/01 8:47:14 pm, UnknownSender@UnknownDomain writes: | | Huh? I've pulled up bracken with my bare hands, and I've never had | any such problems. Bracken stalks only extend a short distance into | the ground, and then rapidly split up into small roots. They pull out | very easily, leaving the roots behind. Granted, you might have a | problem with hundreds of them, as with just about any sort of plant, | but light gloves would take care of that. | | Maybe you're thinking of some other fern species. | No - I trained in Botany and Horticulture, and do know the difference between | bracken and other fern species. | I grew up in a heavily bracken polluted area in the south of England, and | repeat that bracken stalks can lacerate the hands if pulled without gloves. | That is, after the stalks harden up about mid season. I agree that they are | soft early on in the season (at which time they can be cooked and eaten like | asparagus, I have read). | I was Head Gardener of a very famous garden on the west coast of | Scotland for a while, and we had large areas of bracken there: neither my | gardens staff nor the local forestry workers who came in to cut the wilder | areas of the gardens with the scythe would have dreamt of pulling bracken | stalks without leather glove protection. | Nicolas B., Lanark, Maybe you have rougher bracken thereabouts. Most of my esperience has been with North American kinds. OTOH, I've seen some in Scandinavia that seem very much like the bracken around here. Bracken ferns are common to the entire north temperate zone, of course, but there are a number of different species. One warning I read a few years ago: Fern sprouts are a common part of the Japanese diet, and lots of species are eaten. A study was done to try to explain the distribution of several kinds of cancer that have irregular geographic distributions in Japan. One thing that turned up was a strong correlation between stomach cancer and eating bracken sprouts. They said that no other fern showed a correlation with stomach cancer (or any other disease), just brackens. So they recommended not eating bracken until more studies had been done. Now I live in New England, where fiddlehead ferns are common in stores in the springtime. These aren't bracken ferns, so they're probably quite safe. 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] Coire an Lochan
Can anyone tell me any more about this tune? I got it from a collection of ABCs from Silver Apple News, a Cape Breton periodical. Hold the Press: I've just found it on a Joseph Cormier LP, Old Time Wedding Reels, where it says it's by D Muir. Does that help? X:7 T:Coire an Lochan R:reel C:Scottish,traditional S:Silver Apple News,1992 D:Fiddler's Friend, Barbara Magone Z:This abc transcription is for personal use only, Z:provided this notice remains attached. Z:Paul Stewart Cranford [EMAIL PROTECTED] L:1/8 Q:300 M:C K:Ador z|A2 ed e2A2|edea gedc|BABd G2 GA|BcdB edBG|! AAed e2 A2|edeg a2 ag|efge dcBd|e2 dB AAA:|! |:B|c2 gf g2 c2|agea gedc|B2 AB GABc|dBGB gdBG|! ccgf g2 c2|cdeg a2 ag|efge dcBd|e2 dB AAA:|! -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ 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] Session Tunes
Alexander asked: What is the definition of Slow Session Tunes referred to in Nigel Gatherer's e-mail? If I may answer that: there are hundreds of people learning musical instruments in Edinburgh with the help of ALP Scots Music Group, a community education project. One of the things we believe in is making music with other people, and taking a first step out into the community. For more than two years I've been organising a pub session for learners who have probably got a couple of years on their instruments but haven't got the skills or confidence to join in with a full-speed session. In these sessions we play common tunes, mostly Scottish, at a slower speed than you would normally hear them. We also play them at least three times through, often more; this helps people to pick tunes up as they're listening. I have also started a mixed instrument class which is specifically for learning tunes and buliding up a repertoire. I teach tunes in a classroom setting by ear (although with paper back-up for those that wish it), and afterwards we play in the pub. I like to pick tunes that are fairly popular so that anyone can come into the session and join in with at least a few tunes. Likewise, anyone from our session should be able to play with other people on a few common tunes. That's the theory, anyway! Does that answer your question, Alexander? -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ 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] Help with Gaelic
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather cheeky arent you? : ) Nothing more than that, Robyn. I've obviously got too much time on my hands! That's going to change very soon - I've got a whole load of work coming my way and I can't see me having many spare moments in the day. The list heaves a sigh of relief. And goes dead for a month. unfortunately, I cannot SAY them for you can I? But you did ask for pronunciation... and I gave you the best answer I could Thanks for doing so. I'll stop the nearest Gaelic speaker and ask him/her to say it out loud. Actually there's a pocket of Gaelic speakers near me on the Western edge of Perthshire. Occasionally on the bus to Perth you can eavesdrop on fascinating conversations going on all over the bus. If only I knew what they were saying. About me. I know I'm asking for trouble, but how would you pronounce coire an lochan? -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ 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] Session Tunes
- Original Message - From: Nigel Gatherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 5:06 PM Subject: Re: [scots-l] Session Tunes (...) I have also started a mixed instrument class which is specifically for learning tunes and buliding up a repertoire. (...) Hi, Nigel, by the way, which are the mixed instrument classes this year? I've been looking to the web page but there wasn't any information. Is there any class relating to band arrangements or so? Thanks, Manuel Waldesco 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] Session Tunes
If I were at your session I'd have to learn a bunch of new tunes! Where does one find the following? New High Level Hornpipe (Andrew Rankine) Jamie Rae Walking On the Moon (Addie Harper) High Drive (Gordon Duncan) John Stephen of Chance Inn (Angus Fitchett) The Harsh February (Phil Cunningham) The Setting Sun (Ian Hardie) - Kate D. -- Kate Dunlay David Greenberg Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada http://www.total.net/~dungreen 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] Session Tunes
I'm compiling a new list of tunes for my Slow Session class to learn over the next few months. I've jotted some down A lot there that I don't know. Stan Chapman's Jig (Jerry Holland) Dinkies The more I hear those two tunes the less I like them. Dunno why but they just don't grow on me. John Stephen of Chance Inn (Angus Fitchett) Took me ages to figure out that of all the instruments I play, the only one that makes a reasonable job of that one in the original key is a C whistle. A tune that goes well with it (also in F) is Pottinger's Reel. === http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ === 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] Coire an Lochan
Hold the Press: I've just found it on a Joseph Cormier LP, Old Time Wedding Reels, where it says it's by D Muir. Does that help? It's in Kerr's Thistle Collection, collected and arranged by James Hunter. Great tune! I always wondered who D. Muir was. Presumably David Muir of the Tim Wright Band. If so it's odd that it didn't make it into the Cavendish Collection (the book of TWB tunes, still in print as far as I know). === http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ === Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
