[scots-l] Gael question (fwd)
Can anyone help this lady with her request? I am assuming she means the last one which was done only a few years ago. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:52:31 -0700 From: Morley, Sara [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Gael question I have been searching for the violin sheet music to a scottish reel called The Gael its best know from the movie The Last of the Mohicans. It played in accompanyment to The Kiss scene. I have looked all over and haven't been able to find it anywhere including the sheetmusic score to the movie. Any help would be greatly appreciated. :) Thanks! Sara Morley Bidh mi 'gad fhaicinn!!! IWK Children's Hospital Telethon - June 1st and 2nd, 2002 $4.1 Million for 2002 - Thanks!!! Gum bi thu beo\ ann an a\m u\idheil. George / Seo\ras Seto e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GeoCities address [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.geocities.com/george_seto.geo | My stuff url: http://www.corvuscorax.org:8080/~gseto/creighton | Helen Creighton 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] A grand night
Sue Richards wrote: FYI- Laura Risk has not lived in CA for many years, and is now married and living in Montreal. Time to drop the old label. She *is* fabulous to play with. We're happy to claim her as one of ours, though! She still has family in this area so is here fairly frequently, and still maintains ties with members of the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers. -Steve -- Steve Wyrick -- Concord, California 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] lift the bow off the strings?
Alexander, many thanks for your reply. I had just found the section on bowing in Hunter's book last night, and it gives an excellent comparison to the different techniques. Am glad to know that it IS acceptable technique to lift the bow off-- it's certainly easier to do, and the sound is more clean. Thanks again for the post. Kate You might be interested in the straight slur/up-driven bow comments in the introduction to the following collections: Richard Carlin's The Gow Collection of Scottish Dance Music J. Murdoch Henderson's Flowers of Scottish Melody and James Hunter's The Fiddle Music of Scotland. Carlin's description of Niel Gow's up-driven bow is of particular interest. He uses a typical strathspey four note cluster consisting of a sixteenth note followed by a dottted eight, another dotted eight and then a sixteenth to illustrate his point. In his description of Gow's up-driven bow style the first note is taken with a down bow and the next three played staccato with one up bow. Both Henderson and Hunter state that to achieve this the bow must be lifted smartly of the strings with a peculiar jerk of the wrist. In the music with which I am familiar, Cape Breton fiddle, this type of bowing was quite common in reels. In fact it was frequently used where the written music had notes of equal value. In that style the first note was played with a down bow, the bow then lifted of the string and the next three notes played with an up bow bounced for all three notes to achieve the staccato effect. The result, I believe, if used sparingly, is more rhythmic drive to the music. I have used the word was deliberately. This style is now almost extinct in Cape Breton. Alexander Mac Donald Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html 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] A grand night
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:26, Steve Wyrick wrote: Sue Richards wrote: FYI- Laura Risk has not lived in CA for many years, and is now married and living in Montreal. Time to drop the old label. She *is* fabulous to play with. We're happy to claim her as one of ours, though! She still has family in this area so is here fairly frequently, and still maintains ties with members of the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers. -Steve -- Steve Wyrick -- Concord, California Yeah, once you've lived here even for a little while,everyone calls you a Californian for the rest of your life. I wasn't born in CA., neither were my parents, and none of my grandparents were born in the US. I've lived out-of-state for about 14 years, (I'm 30, so that's about half my life), however even when I was away, everyone called me a Californian. I don't even have the California accent. When my wife first met me, she thought I was a Texan, by my speaking. California New York are hard places to shake. Alot of influences tend to melt together out here. 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] A grand night
Yeah, once you've lived here even for a little while,everyone calls you a Californian for the rest of your life. Right enough - Laura was introduced as 'Laura Risk from San Francisco' and did not demur! Dave Francis 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] lift the bow off the strings?
In the music with which I am familiar, Cape Breton fiddle, this type of bowing was quite common in reels. In fact it was frequently used where the written music had notes of equal value. In that style the first note was played with a down bow, the bow then lifted of the string and the next three notes played with an up bow bounced for all three notes to achieve the staccato effect. The result, I believe, if used sparingly, is more rhythmic drive to the music. I have used the word was deliberately. This style is now almost extinct in Cape Breton. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I've heard Alex Francis MacKay do that trick now and again. I noticed him doing that the time that I visited him. I copied that trick for a few tunes I picked up off of him. Just to make it sound more like the way he was playing them. However I don't use that kind of bowing often enough to remember doing it. :-) Or maybe I do, but I don't think about it because I started doing it in an attempt to copy what I was hearing, as opposed to consciously thinking about the bowing technique which was required in order to get that sound. It does have a cool sound. Something else I do which is kind of like that type of bowing (at least my wrist feels like I'm doing a similiar action) is a low-note substitution followed three of the exact same notes in quick succession, all played on the upbow, but with a slight separation between them. I don't know if there's a formal name for that type of bow trick. I like to do that quite a bit though, especially in strathspeys and certain reels. Do that the second time through a phrase, M... Gives it so much flavor! I'm trying to think of example tunes for this and the one that comes to mind first is that A strathspey called John R. Fraser. I'm certain I do that on alot of those modal E tunes that tend to get played with Bog An Lochan as well. They lend themselves well to that. 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] Announce: Kelso Folk Club Jan 10
Jack Campin, author of the EMBRO, EMBRO CD-ROM which has been so acclaimed for its lyric, commentary and tune content will be giving a performance-talk about this with the help of large screen projection at Kelso Folk Club next Friday. As Jack's 'piece' is an unusual one, we have arranged for a first half concert set by young clarsach playing duo Flora and Corrie Collingwood. These two girls are very talented, and last year I made a short demo CD of them - these recordings can be heard on http://www.mp3.com/harp2harp They have promised a 40 minute set with solo pieces and duets. Flora and Corrie will play at around 9.00pm, and Jack's show will be at 10.00pm. I'll be joining Jack with some simple chord or bass accompaniment to some of the tunes he is playing on Friday, but I would welcome any other volunteer instrumentalists: tunes will include: The Illumination - Lord George Gordon's Reel - The Scotch Hero's Reel The Duke of Buccleuch and his Fencibles - Miss Gordon of Gight - Miss Haig of Bemerside - Balvenie Manor for which I can forward ABC or a GIF score, sent to me by Jack. I fully appreciate that this notice will be reaching many who are thousands of miles from Kelso, but if you play loud enough we'll hear you! Venue: The Cobbles Inn, Kelso, Scottish Borders. Time: doors 8.30pm. Admission B#4/B#3 concessions. Floor spots welcome 8.30-9.00pm, and open session to close. The pub serves food if required beforehand and we normally finish up around 12.30pm. 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] Gael question (fwd)
I have been searching for the violin sheet music to a scottish reel called The Gael its best know from the movie The Last of the Mohicans. It played in accompanyment to The Kiss scene. Well I hope a Gaelic Kiss is more pleasant than a Glaswegian one :) Never saw the film, but wasn't it Dougie Maclean who did the music? btw, I hear he's sold the Taybank Hotel in Dunkeld- no more stovies there. Derek Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
