[NSP] Halsway success!
Dear All Just a quick thank you to all those who came this year to contribute to the thumping great successful weekend piping course that it turned out to be, including an amazing Sunday bonus playaround on the end. Christine and I were very moved to receive a public thank for hosting ten years of these events and hope that we can look forward to many more. We much appreciate you support Alan Christine Corkett. PS We are taking £60 deposits for already for places at next year's weekend on 5-8 March 2010. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] re written music
With regard to the Tom Anderson quote, Never try to learn a tune you don't already know, as posted by Christopher Birch, I would suggest that it was a comment very much of the time i.e. small, closely-knit communities who were in regular communication with each other and who shared a common cultural and musical history. The problem is that most people today no longer live in this type of community. To only follow this philosophy now would result in a great diservice to the music we love by restricting it to a smaller and ever-aging group of adherants. The result, of course, would be that eventually more and more music would be 'lost' to later generations. I would suggest that those today who desire to perpetrate this so-called 'ideal' are, in fact, also doing our music a great disservice. Those like Vickers, Bewick and others, and indeed the N.P.S., who had the good sense to recognise that unless tunes were captured in some sort of permanent medium, they would eventually be lost, as those who knew them became unable to pass them on orally, have ensured that these tunes were able to be passed on for all time. As for the written score, its first value is to record. What it cannot do is to demonstrate the interpretation of the music (although the adoption of more rigorous marking of, for instance, grace notes would help). For this, there is no better teacher than being able to listen to a master demonstrating his playing. As this is not always possible in today's more dispersed society, then we must rely on the score. There is a posibility that this may lead to the genre evolving over time. Is this an altogether bad thing? The purist may think so, but I would suggest that there is no such thing as a 'pure' tradition. All music evolves over time, not the least because of improvements to the actual instruments, but also in regard to tempering, changing tastes, the influence of other genres and, especially in the case of our music, music from other regions (e.g. Scottish music). It is noticeable how tunes in Matt Seatle's masterly reproduction of Vicker's collection have changed considerably since first collected. So, should there be a conflict between those who hold that only known tunes should be learnt or that tunes can only be passed on orally, or indeed that this is the only or best way to preserve them? Surely, the two traditions-oral and written- should compliment each other, both working together to ensure that our Northumbrian heritage is both preserved for future generations and made available to the widest possible audience. Peter Dunn -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Halsway success!
Thanks again, Alan and Christine, for organising it. It was my first event of this sort, and hugely worth while. I'm still relatively new to nsp's and still gratefully borrowing other people's sets, but have been on plenty of musical teaching events, both as a student and teacher, and the teaching here was of a really high order. As was the friendly atmosphere. And I'm gutted that I didn't book to stay for Sunday night - I'll know better next time! Richard. Alan Corkett wrote: Dear All Just a quick thank you to all those who came this year to contribute to the thumping great successful weekend piping course that it turned out to be, including an amazing Sunday bonus playaround on the end. Christine and I were very moved to receive a public thank for hosting ten years of these events and hope that we can look forward to many more. We much appreciate you support Alan Christine Corkett. PS We are taking £60 deposits for already for places at next year's weekend on 5-8 March 2010. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Confused!
Hi All, Do we mean oral/orally or aural/aurally ... or perhaps both? Richard Fancy a job? - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/jobs/ __ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Confused!
Or really? Malcolm -Original Message- From: richard.hea...@tiscali.co.uk richard.hea...@tiscali.co.uk To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:36 pm Subject: [NSP] Confused! Hi All, Do we mean oral/orally or aural/aurally ... or perhaps both? Richard Fancy a job? - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/jobs/ __ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Confused!
.. on second thoughts, and in light of the number of Oirish tunes we seem to play in our Northumbrian repertoire, perhaps it should be O'Reilly, Richard Original Message From: malcra...@aol.com Date: 09/03/2009 22:46 To: richard.hea...@tiscali.co.uk, nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subj: [NSP] Re: Confused! Or really? Malcolm -Original Message- From: richard.hea...@tiscali.co.uk richard.hea...@tiscali.co.uk To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:36 pm Subject: [NSP] Confused! Hi All, Do we mean oral/orally or aural/aurally ... or perhaps both? Richard Fancy a job? - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/jobs/ __ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Fancy a job? - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/jobs/ __
