Matt spots the deliberate mistake this week - glad you're awake, Matt!
Yes Nigel, but I was really wondering whether it should be mixolydian
rather than dorian - ?
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Apologies for mass-posting. This is at short notice and will only be
relevant or of interset to a few, but, for those few -
There'll be a performance, free of admission charge, by myself and the
Eildon Strings, of my Border Pipes and String Quartet music at RSAMD
Glasgow on Thurs 24 June at the
We may even end up with another music category - 'Art Trad'.
We've already got it. It's what Matt Seattle and David Greenberg do.
It's good stuff and you should listen to some of it.
She already does, Jack (see Erika's earlier posts)
Some great points in your message - love the bit about
The tune we know now as the Irish jig Langstrom's Pony appears
(differently) in 18th century Scottish sources as Lass Trumponey, Lang
Strumpony and other permutations - do any Gaelic scholars here know if
this might be a rendering of a lost Gaelic title?
Thanks
Matt Seattle
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Cliff Abrams wrote:
Please use usual keys:
d, g, c, a or f
Why? Fiddlers write tunes in specific keys deliberately. Certainly some
of James Hill's tunes (for example) are in more 'awkward' keys (E, Bb)
but if you change them you find even more awkward string crossings.
Matt Seattle
Derek Hoy wrote:
As a paid-up member of the Anti-Variation Front, I couldn't disagree more.
Your Variationalism would have exactly the opposite effect- exhausting our
tune stock by grinding each melody into the ground and bringing the
Traditional Music Industry to its knees.
Lovely post,
- recycling and enriching
the tune rather than disposing of it after one or two plays and on to
the next - but then I'm old-fashioned that way.
Nearly forgot - David Greenberg's rendition of Black Jock is a beacon in
these dark times.
Matt Seattle
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Rather than intervene between David F and Jack C about the merits of Fred
Freeman's work I'd like to say a huge thank you to Erika Mackenzie for her
review of Border Seasons - thank you Erika!
It's great when someone really gets the point of what you're trying to do -
the idiom may be a kind of
Never done this before, but working by analogy from what you wrote, here goes -
X: ?
T:The Roman Wall
M:6/8
L:1/8
C:?
R:Jig
Z:Adam Gray, transcribed by Matt Seattle
K:A
E|ABA cBA|cea ecA|def ecA|GBB B2E|ABA cBA|cea ecA|def ecA|BAG A2::
e|a2a gfe|fga ecA|def ecA|GBB B2e|aba gfe|fga ecA|def ecA|BAG
. The chords are the same for both strains, 1
line per bar (I can't abc, sorry):
E
B/E - E
F#m - E/G#
A
E - E/D#
E/C# - E/B
A(maj7) - E/G#
F#m7
E
B/E - E
F#m - E/G#
A
E - E/D#
E/C# - E/B
A(maj7) - A/B
E
Cheers
Matt Seattle
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Erika Mackenzie wrote:
snip
I'm
always on the lookout for other
'chamber music cum folk music' works. I can't find enough of it to
satisfy my taste.
In that case maybe I can mention my Border Seasons CD? Border Pipes with
String Quartet, mainly original but (partly) with an antique flavour,
I think it's 2 pm Jack.
I saw them in Penicuik last night. FanTAStic. I thought they would be good but
they were much better than that. I only just managed not to shout for Purple
Haze at encore time. Go see them if you can.
Matt S
Jack Campin wrote:
Just a note to say that Ferintosh (Dave
Ferintosh will also be
in Penicuik, Biggar, and Stirling on this trip.
Dates?
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- there's no need to have a problem with it, it's
always(?) been a part of trad music, but if it's not your thing, there are
still plenty of great tunes to play.
Cheers
Matt Seattle
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Toby Rider wrote:
That stuff is rubbish,
just like top 40 music of every other genre nowadays.. Sad..
Craig David's pretty good, no?
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Perhaps it's got a bit out of hand, very hot weather here in the Borders at
the moment at any rate.
Most genres have their 'quality' artistes, and in mentioning Craig David I was
referring to top 40 generally, not of course 'country' music.
As for understanding modes (etc. etc.) I don't think it
strains)
come to mind as versions I've got a lot out of personally, with many others
still to explore.
Cheers
Matt Seattle
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groups because my URL didn't show up in
the message header.
Cheers
Matt Seattle
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setting has some LH pizzicato, but that's
the only point in common with Pop Goes The Weasel.
Cheers,
Matt Seattle
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, instinctively, even
spiritually? If it raises hairs on the back of your neck, brings a lump to
your throat or a tear to your eye or a smile to your face, it's authentic for
you now.
Matt Seattle
(part-time musical historian...)
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Apologies if this has been covered before. Burns' song Now Westlin Winds in
the Scots Musical Museum is directed to be sung to 'Come kiss wi' me, come
clap wi' me' but the tune given there is not the familiar one of that title
(which is often also the title of
'Had I the wyte', aka the reel Bob
Hi Nigel-
Good to see you too, amd other friends here. I think this is not the time or
place to give a résumé of my 'musical adventures', but I'm keeping busy,
thanks! Just back o'er the border after two Burns night ceilidhs in England,
piping and fiddling with Border Directors.
See you anon
Matt
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