Re: [scots-l] astonishing key for a jig
>> 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...
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Re: [scots-l] astonishing key for a jig
Hi, Wow, at last a tune written for us, C#D box players! ;-) Dominique R Jack Campin a écrit: K:C# Minor Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[scots-l] astonishing key for a jig
Jack Campin wrote: > 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. As wonderful as Gore is, there's so much that isn't listed. 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. The Gow-published sheets of this kind are numerous, and I've had a look at a great many in Perth - there's some fine stuff there, and some intriguing titles: The Wooden Walls (or "All Hands Oot at Work") The Mole Catcher's Daughter Ramah Droog (this one predating Burgess's Clockwork Orange) The Divel Among the Taylors (sic) Peas and Beans (by Nath Gow, composed on hearing two women calling these articles in the streets of Edinburgh) Galloping Dreary Dun The Ridicule The Honny Moon Six New Tunes...by Thomas Crichton, teacher of the Tambarine (that's a job I'd like to have!) 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. Another sheet has "America," a very old reel to which is appended this comment: "This old reel suits well as a medley with The Gallant Hope* and Nathaniel Gow could not help availing himself of it as the guns of the castle were firing in honour of the Ratification of the American Treaty at the moment he was finishing this publication. March 17th 1815." The sheets date from about 1798 up to about 1819. -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] astonishing key for a jig
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[scots-l] astonishing key for a jig
This one seems never to have made it into a book; at least it
isn't in Charlie Gore's index. The arrangements on the sheet
are all for piano.
X:1
T:Carfrae Frolic
S:Miss Platoff's Wedding (music sheet, Gow and Shepherd, 1813)
B:NLS Mus.E.l.78(65)
C:Mr. Mather
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:C# Minor
{^A}G^^FG {A}GFG |{^A}G^^FG {A}GFG |e3 d2c|^Bcd G3 |
cdc BAG |ABA GF^E|FGF =EDC|^B,CD G,3 :|
{F}EDE {F}EDE |cde BAG |ABc BAG| FGE DC^B,|
{D}C^B,C {d}c^Bc|A=BA GAF |EFG FED| C3 c3 :|
Is there a particular kind of dance called a "frolic"? All the
tunes I know with that title are jigs.
You could segue from that into "Calliope House", I guess (assuming
you could get your fingers round the tune in the first place).
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