Re: [scots-l] Re: Scots Music Quiz

[Clifford Abrams]

Opinions on this vary. Widely. Look (i think) on the
IrTrad list archive.

CliffA

> I have an easy question, I think. How did the "Jig
of Slurs" get it's name?
> 


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Re: [scots-l] Hut On Staffin Island

[Clifford Abrams]

I was informed by a colleague that "hut" is a non-PC
word and taboo in polite society. I think we should
think in terms of re-titling to: "The Burning of the
Piper's Modest Dwelling" and, of course, "The Small
Home on Staffen Island"

Cliff Abrams

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Re: [scots-l] astonishing key for a jig

[Clifford Abrams]

--- Jack,

Thanks for the tune.
CliffA

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Re: [scots-l] Ale Moller's cow horn

[Clifford Abrams]

I have seen him play it. It appeared to be
"controlled" by mouth-shape rather than fingering
holes. It looked like the Jewish *shofar*, which is a
trumpet made from a ram's horn, and, similarly, has no
holes.

CliffA

Anybody seen him do this live?  What sort of
instrument is it?

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[scots-l] Song Help

[Clifford Abrams]

This morning i heard an interesting song about, i
believe, a woman's relationship or friendship (or lack
thereof) with Bonnie Prince Charlie (the 18th century
original). I believe the singer was Frankie
Armstrong-- sounded like her, anyway. I only caught
the refrain: "Give me the chance, I'd do it all
again." Thanks for your help.

Cliff Abrams

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Re: [scots-l] re: A Fiddler's Book of Scottish Jigs

[Clifford Abrams]

Thanks for the tunes--which worked in the
Convert-a-Matic, BTW.

CliffA

Anyway, this was the most-remarked-on medley
> of the
> evening.


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Re: [scots-l] A Fiddler's Book of Scottish Jigs

[Clifford Abrams]

Thanks very much
CA


--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 1/9/03 11:14:57 AM Eastern
> Standard Time, 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
> 
> > Does this book have an ISBN number? Thanks.
> 
> ISBN 0 946868 21 2
> The Hardie Press (1997)
> 17 Harrison Gardens
> Edinburgh EH11 1SE
> 
> --Cynthia Cathcart
> http://www.cynthiacathcart.net/
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Re: [scots-l] A Fiddler's Book of Scottish Jigs

[Clifford Abrams]

Does this book have an ISBN number? Thanks.

CliffA


--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's a wonderful book!...

> --Cynthia Cathcart
> http://www.cynthiacathcart.net/
> 


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Re: [scots-l] Re: Gael question (fwd)

[Clifford Abrams]

Thanks for the air.
CliffA
> 
> ...I'll send you an ABC file. I got my version from
a
> television programme...

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Re: [scots-l] Re: Burns Waltz set

[Clifford Abrams]

I have no abc, but there's a book "The Fiddle Duets of
Robert Burns" (with "CD available"). Taigh na Teud
ISBN:1871931975. www.scotlandmusic.com. Table o'
contents: Ae Fond Kiss, A Man's a Man, (no more caps)
auld lang syne, ay waukin o, bannocks o meal, birks of
aberfieldie, canst thou leave me, ca the yowes, comin
thru rye, deil's awa'..., duncan grey, gallant weaver,
green grow..., i hae a wife..., i'll gang nae mair tae
yon toon, i'm a doun for lack o johnnie, john anderson
my jo, kenmure's up an awa, leezie lindsay, mary
morrison, my hoggie, my love is like..., my love she's
but a lassie yet, my nannie's awa, ruffian's rant,
scots wha hae, ther'll ner be peace till jamie comes
hame, there was a lad, this is no my ain lassie,
willie brewed a peck of malt, and ye banks and braes.

CliffA

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Re: [scots-l] Disappointment

[Clifford Abrams]

Really. A mistake indeed! Is there a "Marmite" song or tune anywhere
out there? It would probably sound like Schoenberg at any rate.

CA.

The musical equivalent of mistaking Marmite for chocolate spread I
don't think I've managed to hear the Schoenberg to this day...

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Re: [scots-l] Harry Lauder 78s

[Clifford Abrams]

At a piping concert last year in STL, "the Gay Gordons" was announced
as "The Very Happy Gordons".

CliffA


--- Toby Rider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > "Queen Among the Heather"?  good grief.
> 
>   Hey, wasn't that the album that came after "Queen At The BBC" in
> 1995?
> When Freddie Mercury was still at the height of his bell-bottomed
> glory?? :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 
> "I don't try to be better then anybody else. I only try to be
> better than
> myself."
> 
> - Dan Jansen, Olympic Gold Medalist & World Record Holder, Speed
> Skating
> 
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Re: [scots-l] Postie's Jig

[Clifford Abrams]

Don't have the music, specifically, but we used to dance "Postie's"
as a fairly intricate 3-couple set to "Black Nag" (or just about any
similar tune), if memory serves. Please correct as needed.

CA


--- Jerry Agin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking for a source for the music for Postie's Jig.  I've
> researched it in a variety of places, and I'm coming up with
> incomplete
> and inconsistent results.
> 
> About half the recordings listed in Alan Paterson's DanceData
> database
> use a lead tune called "Lassie Come and Dance with Me".  Two
> recordings
> use "Cardiff Caledonians".  The rest use a variety of other tunes.
> 
> I've got the music for Cardiff Caledonians.  I have not been able
> to
> locate Lassie Come and Dance With Me either in any ABC collection
> or in
> my own collection of printed music.  The Sydney Scottish Fiddlers
> website has an ABC entry for "Posties Jig" that looks incomplete to
> me,
> and doesn't sound like what I associate with that dance.  And I've
> got
> an old recording of Postie's Jig with an unidentified lead tune
> that's
> neither Cardiff Caledonians nor what's on the Sydney site.
> 
> The original source for the dance seems to be "Omskirk Scottish
> Dances
> Book 5."
> 
> At this point I'm going to go ahead and use Cardiff Caledonians to
> lead
> off a set for Postie's Jig.  But my curiosity has been aroused. 
> Can
> anyone add anything to what I've found?
> 
>  Jerry Agin
> 
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Re: [scots-l] Ballad question

[Clifford Abrams]

David,

Thanks very much for your interesting, thorough reply. Yes, there are
also a few references to "brown" swords.
> 
'Metal free' or 'metal clear' refers to the difference between
naturally occurring free iron and iron refined from ore ('metal
brown') - or to the iron derived from different ores. Pyrites,
haematite and another ironstone ore (can't remember, I knew all this
once from my father) require different extraction processes and there
were very rare occurrences of free iron - maybe meteorites...

The same is true of good kitchen knives-- of which i have a couple.

Good swords did not rust(ditto armour) but went dark and stayed
sharp.


CliffA


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[scots-l] Ballad question

[Clifford Abrams]

In many texts, spears or other weapons are often "shod with metal
'free'". Why "free". I understand (from the late Tony Cuffe) that a
"wee pen knife" was really very likely a "weapon knife"-- which
people were much more likely to carry around in earlier days. (As an
aside, many paintings by Brughel and Bosch feature men of all classes
carrying these kserviceablervicable-lookidaggers daggars. They seem
like long bayonettes mostly.)

Is a similar transposition happening with the "free" thing? Thanks.

Cliff Abrams

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Re: [scots-l] Re: unsubscribe

[Clifford Abrams]

Oh. Thanks.
CA


--- Toby Rider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> spam, and
> then immediately signing off.. Also, people were signing onto the
> list
> and sending a "who" command to the list server, which allowed them
> to
> harvest email addresses which they would then sell to spammers.
>   People started really bitching about the spam. Especially Jack
> Campin,
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Re: [scots-l] Re: unsubscribe

[Clifford Abrams]

I don't get it. How can you abuse Subscribe, unsubscribe...what's to
"ruin"?

CliffA


--- Toby Rider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hopefully it won't get abused like it did a couple years ago. It only
takes a couple of assholes to ruin things for everyone. Know what I mean?

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Re: [scots-l] I've got the virus too - perhaps I can help.

[Clifford Abrams]

I just got done working for a large company. The IT people were all
full of an irrational hatred for any OS other the the junk put out by
Microsoft. Their training? It's like Republicans and Clinton. Mac,
Linux, Unix, whatever. From a users point of view (never really very
important to these folks), anything else is far, far better.

Cliff Abrams


--- David Kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ted Hastings wrote:
> 
> 
> > As far as I can see, the principal characteristic of the "Unix
> user
> > community" is to criticise Microsoft and Windows at every
> opportunity.
> > Windows users don't seem to be nearly as prone to bashing the
> > competition, perhaps because they're getting on with productive
> work
> > using the world's best-selling software, rather than writing
> their
> > own fixes for OS bugs :<)
> > 
> Try telling that to my son, who has been unable to work at all for
> the last three days
> 
> because of the ridiculous registry system used by Microsoft, which
> if 
> you are obliged to install many programs and attempt to remove them
> (we 
> have to test digital cameras, scanners, software etc all the time)
> and 
> also run heavily protected software like Sage Payroll on the same 
> machine - well, the risks are huge.
> 
> I was told that Mac OS X with its 64,000 system components was a 
> nightmare but not so - unlike Windows NT/2000/XP whatever, it
> really can 
> handle a re-installation without losing a single user preference or
> a 
> single essential file, or any of the links betweens programs, data
> and 
> system-level components installed by programs for their own use.
> 
> We can't afford to have multiple PCs but we are now considering
> having 
> one just to run payroll and contact info software, one just to run 
> Internet access, and one for testing equipment and software which
> can be 
> erased and reinstalled without risk. We've been using Sun, Mac,
> BeBox, 
> Acorn, various Linux installations (on both Mac and PC), many
> handhelds 
> and pioneer products over the last decade or so and:
> 
> of all the systems and platforms out there, not one is as utterly
> awful 
> as the Microsoft/PC platform. It is the only platform which
> consistently 
> costs us time, money and anger.
> 
> I can be frustrated at time with Macs, but at least:
> I can switch in two minutes to working under OS9 and do any work I
> need 
> to on OS X components, without 'ownership' issues and access
> privileges 
> hampering me
> I can boot up and run my system from a CD
> I can run software we bought in 1984 alongside the latest packages,
> and 
> be utterly stable and print reliably - not ALL software from 1984,
> of 
> course, and I have a cupboard full of software which stopped
> running the 
> year after it was purchased, as was never rewritten...
> 
> because Windows was the world's leading platform, and it wasn't
> worth 
> keeping stuff live on Macs at the time
> 
> However, now Macs are essentially Unix machines, that problem has
> gone, 
> and I can well understand why the peculiar folk of the Unix
> community 
> have been so gnarly for so many years. They were right all along.
> 
> David
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[scots-l] Bain&Moller CD

[Clifford Abrams]

John and others,

"Fully Rigged" is obtainable from:
Northside
Postbox 7367
Minneapolis, MN 55407
USA

www.noside.com

At least that what it says on the label...

CliffA

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Re: [scots-l] The Ale/y's

[Clifford Abrams]

When i spoke to Aly, he said that they were on their way to a gig in
Bloomington, IN via car. Sorry i don't know anything more than that.

CA


--- Sue Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 08:46 AM 10/14/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >Shetland. That reminds me: I saw Aly Bain and Ali (sorry, forgot
> his
> >last name--he plays cittern, harmonica and some wild wind
> >instruments) at the Focal Point here in St. Louis. They were
> >great--so is their CD. A superb blend of
> >Shetland/Irish/Scots/Swedish. Hats off to Judy Stein & Co. for
> their
> >great bookings.
> >
> >Cliff Abrams
> 
> 
> Aly Bain and Ale Moller will appear on the Millenium stage
> at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on Wed the 16th at 6 pm
> for free. As far as I know, they do not have any other local
> appearances. Too bad! 
> I wonder whether Aly and Ale are just different spellings
> of the same name. Ale has done lots of work with Scandinavian
> music, he is truly a wizard! I am almost as excited to see him as
> Aly. 
> 
> Sue Richards 
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RE: [scots-l] Shetland Fiddler, The

[Clifford Abrams]

John (and others),

Tomorrow i will post all the contact info.
Best,
CliffA


--- "John L. Loudon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cliff:
> 
> How do I get a copy of the CD? Do you know where I could buy one?
> 
> Thanks very much.
> 
> John Loudon
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Clifford Abrams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:47 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [scots-l] Shetland Fiddler, The
> 
> Shetland. That reminds me: I saw Aly Bain and Ali (sorry, forgot
> his
> last name--he plays cittern, harmonica and some wild wind
> instruments) at the Focal Point here in St. Louis. They were
> great--so is their CD. A superb blend of
> Shetland/Irish/Scots/Swedish. Hats off to Judy Stein & Co. for
> their
> great bookings.
> 
> Cliff Abrams
> 
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Re: [scots-l] Shetland Fiddler, The

[Clifford Abrams]

Shetland. That reminds me: I saw Aly Bain and Ali (sorry, forgot his
last name--he plays cittern, harmonica and some wild wind
instruments) at the Focal Point here in St. Louis. They were
great--so is their CD. A superb blend of
Shetland/Irish/Scots/Swedish. Hats off to Judy Stein & Co. for their
great bookings.

Cliff Abrams

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Re: [scots-l] Scots Tunes in O'Neill's Collections (was: Music source books)

[Clifford Abrams]

Great info. Thanx.
CA


--- Nigel Gatherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Leslie asked:
> 
> > ...My library includes O'Neill's.  Would anyone want to suggest
> some
> > neat Scottish tunes from that book...
> 
> There are many tunes of Scots origin or association which have been
> absorbed into the Irish tradition. You say O'Neill's - which one?
> Looking at Dance Music of Ireland, here's a start (an intellectual
> exercise).
> 
> Name in O'Neill's (name of Scots original/associated tune)
> 
> DOUBLE JIGS
> Money in Both Pockets (this was certainly known in Scotland, but I 
> 
>don't know its origin)
> The Jolly Corkonian (Hills of Glenorchy)
> The Tailor's Thimble (Banks of the Allan)
> The Highlander (Highland Pibroch or Auld Wattie)
> The Cat In the Corner (Lady Charlotte Murray's Fav)
> The Victor's Return (Lord MacDonald's March to Harlaw)
> The Jolly Old Man (Brisk Young Lad)
> Black Donald the Piper (Pibroch of Donal Dhu)
> The Market Town (Peter Baillie's Wife)
> The Thief of Lough Erne (Thief of Lochaber)
> O'Mahoney's Frolicks (Lady Charlotte Murray's Fav)
> The Gallowglass (Niel Gow's Lament for his Brother)
> The Laccarue Boys (Bonnie Dundee)
> The Absent-Minded Man (Hare In the Corn)
> Blue Bonnets Jig
> Take It Easy (Hey Jenny Come Down to Jock)
> The Black Rogue (Johnny McGill's)
> The Lads of Dunse
> The Lasses of Dunse
> Portpatrick
> 
> SINGLE JIGS
> Behind the Bush In the Garden (Wha'll be King But Charley?)
> The Runaway Jig
> 
> HIP OR SLIP JIGS
> My Mind Will Never Be Aisy (Woo'd And Merrit An' A')
> Tipperary Hills (Andrew Carey) 
> Up and Down Again (Brose and Butter)
> Open the Door For Three
> I Have a Wife Of My Own (I Hae a Wife O My Ain)
> 
> REELS
> Paddy Ryan's Dream (Miss Lyall)
> The Flogging Reel (The Flagon)
> The New Demesne (Miss Corbett's)
> Johnny's Wedding (Johnny's Made a Waddin O't)
> The Youngest Daughter (Sweet Molly or Hopetoun House)
> The Ewe reel (The Ewie Wi the Crookit Horn)
> The Boyne Hunt (The Perth Hunt) 
> Colonel Fraser (...of Knocky)
> The Clock In the Steeple (Kilwinning's Steeple)
> Dogs Among the Bushes (Athole Brose, or Brandlings)
> Bonnie Kate (Bonnie Lass of Fisherrow)
> Jim Kennedy's Favourite (The Lowlands of Scotland)
> More Luck To Us (The Smith's a Gallant Fireman)
> Roll Her On the Mountain (Roll Her On the Hill)
> MacLean's Favourite (John Roy Stewart)
> The Mason's Apron
> Kitty Got a Clinking (High Road to Linton)
> The Money Musk (Monymusk)
> Molly Put the Kettle On (Jenny's Bawbee)
> An Ugly Customer (Duchess of Athole's Slipper)
> Miss Johnson (Miss Johnstone)
> Jerry Hayes (Dunkeld Bridge)
> The Flax In Bloom (Marquis of Huntly's Highland Fling)
> On the Sly (Lochiel's Rant)
> Col. McBain (Colonel MacBean)
> Lord McDonald's Reel
> Tady's Waddle (Torryburn Lasses)
> Miss McLeod's Reel (Mrs McLeod of Raasay)
> Push About the Jorum
> Sleepy Maggie
> Green Groves of Erin (Miss Stewart, Grantully)
> Lord Gordon's Reel (Duke of Gordon's Favourite)
> The Bonnie Boy (Because He was a Bonnie Lad)
> The Reel of Bogie
> Comely Jane Downing (Torryburn Lasses)
> Bill Clancy's Delight (Pretty Peggy)
> Jolly Seven (Highlandman Kissed his Mother)
> Captain Byng 
> Wind That Shakes the Barley
> Paddy Murphy's Wife (Mr Menzies of Culdares)
> Rakish Paddy (Caber Feidh)
> The Queen's Shilling (Lady Mary Ramsay)
> Little Kate Kearney (Alister McAlister)
> The Watchmaker (Niel Gow's Wife)
> Kiss Your Partners (Braes of Dunblane)
> Flowers of Limerick (Ewie Wi the Crookit Horn)
> Cooleen Bridge (Tarbolton Lodge or Hatton Burn)
> Maids of Tulla (Marquis of Tullibardine)
> Boil the Breakfast Early (The Lasses Fashion)
> 
> -- 
> Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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Re: [scots-l] Re: Willie's Lady

[Clifford Abrams]

Thanks Nigel. So how can i get one?

CA


--- Nigel Gatherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Clifford Abrams wrote:
> 
> > I just listened to "Willie's Lady". Any information on that
> friendly
> > household sprite, the Billy Blind (or Belly Blind, etc.)? Thanks.
> 
> Greetings, Cliff. Probably nothing that you don't already know.
> It's a
> form of broonie or brownie, a sprite which comes into the house at
> night and does chores. I had one of these when I was living at home
> as
> a boy, but when I left home, the broonie didn't come with me, for
> some
> reason.
> 
> -- 
> Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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[scots-l] Willie's Lady

[Clifford Abrams]

I just listened to "Willie's Lady". Any information on that friendly
household sprite, the Billy Blind (or Belly Blind, etc.)? Thanks.

Cliff Abrams

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RE: [scots-l] Tam Lin

[Clifford Abrams]

Has anyone mentioned the very nice, authentic-sounding version done
by Frankie Armstrong on a recent (sorry, i forgot the name, but can
dig if you're interested) CD? No abc though, as i have not
transcribed it. Best
CliffA

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Re: [scots-l] Re: Jamie Rae

[Clifford Abrams]

Thanks.

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Re: [scots-l] Re: Jamie Rae

[Clifford Abrams]

Nigel,

Does the Gesto Collection exist in reprint? Thanks.

CliffA



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Re: [scots-l] Scots Music Quiz

[Clifford Abrams]

Here's the few i know:


2. "Push About the Jorum"; what is a "jorum"?
A wooden bowl

9. What does the tune "The Ewie Wi' the Crookit Horn" refer to?
A poteen still. The "horn" being the condensing coil.

11. In which form of music would you hear the Urlar, the Taorluath
and the Crunluath?
Piobrach (sp?)


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Re: [scots-l] Composers

[Clifford Abrams]

This is public domain. It's found in O'Neill's Dance Music of
> Ireland as "Paddy's Resource"; "Road to Skye" is, I think, the Cape
Breton name for it (quick check in Trad Celtic Violin Music of CB
yes, it's there; also called "The Rover" in Ireland).
> 

So is "The Rambler" ("An Fanai") the same tune as "The Rover" (and,
thus, the others too)?

CliffA

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Re: [scots-l] Help!

[Clifford Abrams]

I found a complete book of his poetry (paperback) at the local
Barnes&Nobel. This is kind of a no-brainer as there should be lots of
resources at Amazon, B&N (or similar mega-book store) or the local
library.


--- Ellen Sinatra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can any of you help with references to books and/or resources on
> Robert Burns (and his poetry?)  I have a student who's planning to
> write a paper on his poetry and needs direction.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Ellen
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Re: [scots-l] Tempi and other not so dumb questions

[Clifford Abrams]

Morgan's Rattler is from an old fife tunebook, spiral-bound of
limited production, now, unfortunately packed away as i put my things
in storage for about a year while i contemplate exactly where to live
in my new location. A long-winded way of saying that i can't remember
the exact title and can't get to it for awhile. I have not
encountered many "rattlers", which seem to be a variety of 2/4
quickstep, but they do seem to be a distinct American form (you're
probably right about the date--though i do think that Morgan may have
been composing c. WWI), and some may be in "Riley's Flute Melodies".
Sorry about guessing about this stuff from my leaky memory, but,
again, the references aren't accessable. PS. Interesting that you
should reply on the message board as i wrote to you "privately".
Either format is fine. Thanks for your reply.
CliffA

--- Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I guess these are mostly Amercan tunes, but how do you feel about
> > "rattlers"--which are sometimes noted as retreats? "Morgan's
> Rattler"
> > also seems to be kind of speedy, but maybe i'm playing it wrong.
> 
> "Morgan Rattler" is from the 1780s, well before the retreat march
> was
> invented.  I had no idea it was a genre: there is a fragmentary
> verse
> from C.K. Sharpe's manuscripts with the punchline "I lathered her
> up
> with my Morgan Rattler", which kinda suggests he didn't have
> 3-wheelers
> in mind either.
> 
> Where do you find these "rattler" tunes?
> 
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Re: [scots-l] Tempi and other not so dumb questions

[Clifford Abrams]

 I find your observations interesting, especially in that a march
usually listed as a retreat like "Battle of the Somme" seems to
want-- at least for me-- to move along a bit. I guess these are
mostly Amercan tunes, but how do you feel about "rattlers"--which are
sometimes noted as retreats? "Morgan's Rattler" also seems to be kind
of speedy, but maybe i'm playing it wrong.

CliffA

The retreat march is not, as Stan suggests, necessarily a march time
tune which would be marched to - as often as not it was played as
part of the evening ritual in the military camp as day duties gave
way to night ones. It was not linked to the military manoeuvre of
retreating in or from battle but was linked to the idea of refuge and
safety in the camp. Some contemporary players, assuming that the
retreat march is to be marched to, crank it up to a  kind of
swaggering, kilt swinging, tempo which robs the airs of the inherent
melancholy quality which many possess.
> 
> I hope this helps illustrate my earlier point.
> 
> Stuart Eydmann

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Re: [scots-l] Tempi and other not so dumb questions

[Clifford Abrams]

Forgive my ignorance, but what does the word "birl" mean? Thanks.

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Re: [scots-l] Scots-L List

[Clifford Abrams]

Thanks for the info and the translation.

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[scots-l] So i noticed.

[Clifford Abrams]

...feeling computer illiterate, as usual. Thanks.

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Re: [scots-l] Scots-L List

[Clifford Abrams]

Speaking of subscribing, i signed up for the list and have been
getting the postings, but i'm unaware how to make an original
posting-- which i have wanted to do on ocassion. I'm definitely more
involved with deleting spam than sending it, but i'd be glad to be
"vetted" however you see fit (look me up in "Google" for openers).
Thanks.

CliffA

PS: Lang may yer lum reek means: "long may your (?) (?)".


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Re: [scots-l] New ballad inquiry

[Clifford Abrams]

"Witch of the West Merelands" by Archie Fisher.

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