Dear lutenists,
as my subject says, there really is something unique in the way the
Scots adopted the lute. Already in the times of the "vieil accord", the
renaissance tuning, the Scots used the lute in playing their own songs
and melodies - in modern terms playing the "folk music". And that
practise continued to the baroque times, perhaps even later. As far as I
know, no other nation or ethnic group ever so strongly used the lute in
playing their own traditional music. Well, this is just my experience,
no real research here...
Anyhow, I hope you do not condemn my tiny efforts of trying to
understand that special phenomenon, and especially my postings of the
links to my (foreign to Scots) efforts to play examples of that music.
Now I started to try to get an idea of the pieces in ms. Balcarres that
are in "Jean More's way, by Mr. Beck".
The first one is
Over the moore, to Katie, Jean More's way, by mr. Beck (ms. Balcarres
195)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGaE5AF4uv4&feature=youtu.be
http://vimeo.com/50387193
Best,
Arto
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