In a message dated 8/23/07 4:39:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hallo Jake, I am Asturian, and as a well-informed musician, I do not believe in celtism and its strange equation bagpipes=Celtic. (And Dublin seems even farther than Madrid). Hello Wenceslao, I never presumed that bagpipes = Celtic. From all I've read about the musicians of Asturias and Galicia *they* call their music "Celtic." Because someone plays the Italian or Hungarian bagpipes does not make them "Celtic." Anyway, the Casto Sampedro songbook is a great source with more than 160 bagpipe tunes (#318 is a powerful muiñeira and #424 a curious processional march that includes Eb). Not so many in the Martínez Torner Asturian collection, but some are terrific (#131 and #335 are among my favourite ones). In Kurt Schindler's songbook you have a dense concentrate of traditional ornamentation in tune #4. As for the Mallorcan xeremiers' repertoire (Samper and Massot songbooks) it follows also a C# major tonality on a C# drone so it is easy to transpose to C major. The four sections of the Sant Salvador's dance in Massot's collection are very interesting for stage. I had had some problems to get the Martínez Torner - Bal Gay Galician songbook so Ivan's link is a great discovery. Do you know of any sources for traditional music / folksongs of Asturias and Galicia that may be available? I want to learn so much. BTW, do you play Italian bagpipes? A little off-topic, sorry, Wenceslao Martínez Calonge No, I have a hurdy gurdy that I have been having a difficult time trying to learn. I play mostly guitar, mandolin and electric bass guitar. I hope to publicize and promote the music of Asturias and Galicia here in the eastern U.S. Thank you for your response. Jake _www.myspace.com/jakeconte_ (http://www.myspace.com/jakeconte) _www.myspace.com/celticspain_ (http://www.myspace.com/celticspain) ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour
