Quoting Francis Wood <oatenp...@googlemail.com>:
Another 'traditional' tune, J.L Dunk's Whin Shields on the Wall was
unplayable nonsense when given to the NPS in a literate-looking but
impossible manuscript. Someone, probably the editor Gilbert Askew
has bashed it into the excellent Whinshield's Hornpipe.
I think that Francis is being unkind to Mr James Delanoy Dunk. Mr Dunk
was heavily involved in the highbrow music scene of London in the
early part of the last century. His sister, Susan Spain-Dunk achieved
some recognition as a Classical composer.
http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.com/2009/09/susan-spain-dunk-note-in-music-student.html
James' writings on music theory are widely regarded as
incomprehensible but they reveal someone who has thought deeply about
the nature of music. Perhaps he has thought too deeply, for that way
madness lies!
I suspect that Whin Shields on the Wall as submitted was an attempt to
make a work which would bring the NSP into the Classical repertoire of
the time. I can make no sense of it but then I have no feeling for the
works of Schonberg, Stockhausen, Bertwhistle or Cage. I leave such
matters to others in the same way as I leave aside recent attempts to
take NSP into the world of contemporary classical music. These
ventures simply hold no interest for me.
The Lass of Falstone is a pretty good tune though.
Barry
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