>> This one seems never to have made it into a book; at least it isn't >> in Charlie Gore's index. > None of the single sheets or four-page publications are in Gore.
I knew that - the point I was making was that no anthologist seems to have picked up the tune and renamed it; I can;t see anything that might be it in Gore under any other name in any key. It's fairly unusual to find a tune in a sheet like this that doesn't occur in *some* form in a book. "The Persian Dance" from the same sheet did get into the repertoire, via George Cameron, despite being less melodically interesting. Presumably all the anthologists took one look at the key signature and thought "omigod, commercial death". There is a saying in the publishing world that for popular science books, every equation you include cuts the sales by 10% - the same is probably true of key signatures with more than 3 sharps or 2 flats in the field of tune books. > Skinner also published tunes in two- or three-tune sets which aren't > listed. If I remember correctly, well-known tunes such as "The Spey > in Spate" can't be found in Gore. That's partly because it came too late for his cutoff date; maybe Murdoch Henderson was the first person to put it in a book? > The Gow-published sheets of this kind are numerous, and I've had a look > at a great many in Perth I think by now I must have seen at least one copy of every one that still exists, either at the NLS, Dundee, Perth or the Mitchell. While I was researching the CD-ROM I often found myself sitting next to a bloke who was doing a systematic bibliography of all the Gows' work, going through these sheets with a transillumination light to check the watermarks; he told me he started that only after independently doing a lot of what Charlie did without realizing there was anyone else doing such work. So he switched direction a bit. I haven't seen him for about three years and have no idea what he's done with his research. > One very interesting sheet is "Largo's Fairy Dance" which turns out to > be a suite of two tunes: "The Fairies Advancing" - a slow march - and > "The Fairy Dance", both composed by Nathaniel Gow for the Fife Hunt in > about 1802. I didn't note down the way it appears there, but here is how it looked when it was first published in book form, which probably wasn't very different: X:1 T:Largo's Fairy Dance C:Nath. Gow S:Niel Gow, Fifth Collection B:NLS Glen.408(1) M:2/4 L:1/8 K:C z|({cd}e2) ec| e2 ec |({cd}e2) ec | BG dB | ({cd}e2) ec| (fe)dc | B>G d>B| c2 C :| f|({ef}g2) ge|{^g}a2 a=g| (Tfe).f.d|({ef}g2)g>f | {f}e>de>c| A2 f>d| BGAB | c2 c>f | ({ef}g2) ge|{^g}a2 a=g| Tf>efd | {^f}g2 g>=f| {f}e>dec | A2 f>d| B>GA>B | c2 C |] That would create a few puzzled expressions in a session... =================== <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