RE: [scots-l] Highland Cathedral
Nigel Gatherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I been looking (fruitlessly) for some background to the tune Highland Cathedral by Michael Korb Ulrich Roeve. Can anyone tell me more, or point me to a likely source? When it was played as the finale of the Edinburgh Tattoo (?1992?) they said it had been written by a Berliner for the people of Scotland. I also heard unofficially that they were very tight with their copyright, so you have to get permission (and pay for it) to play it in public. Allegedly. I doubt the Edinburgh buskers pay their dues... Ian -- IndigoVision Ltd http://www.indigovision.com/ The Edinburgh Technopole, Bush Loan, Edinburgh, EH26 0PJ Tel: [+44] (0)131 475 7234 Fax: [+44] (0)131 475 7201 Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.scottishdance.net Feed the world: http://www.thehungersite.com/ The information in this e-mail is confidential and for use by the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient (or responsible for delivery of the message to the intended recipient) please notify us immediately on the above detailed phone number and delete the message from your computer: you may not copy or forward this e-mail, or use or disclose its contents to any other person. We thank you in anticipation for your assistance. As internet communications are capable of data corruption no responsibility is accepted for changes made to this message after it was sent. For this reason it may be inappropriate to rely on information contained in this e-mail without obtaining written confirmation of it. In addition, no liability or responsibility is accepted for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan any attachments to this e-mail. Nothing in this e-mail shall constitute or be construed as constituting an offer, obligation or an acceptance of any offer previously made. Opinions, comments and other information in this e-mail that do not relate to the business of IndigoVision Group plc, IndigoVision Limited and/or IndigoVision, Inc. shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the companies or any of them. 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] Highland Cathedral
Anselm Lingnau wrote: Nigel Gatherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I been looking (fruitlessly) for some background to the tune Highland Cathedral According to http://www.rampantscotland.com/let010818.htm: | The pipe-tune, amazingly, was written by two Germans... Thanks, Anselm, that's just what I wanted. Ian Brockbank wrote: ...I also heard unofficially that they were very tight with their copyright, so you have to get permission (and pay for it) to play it in public... At this time of year I tentatively let my students choose tunes to do in the classroom. Sometime the choices are wholly inappropriate, other times they're ideal (last week was Harvest Home). So, one student chose Highland Cathedral, and we'll be doing it in the classroom, not in public! Unless you've got a need for a whistle orchestra... -- 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] Highland Cathedral
I been looking (fruitlessly) for some background to the tune Highland Cathedral Anybody got a set of chords for it? It's so different from any Scottish tune I don't have much of a clue about what an appropriate accompaniment might be like. I doubt it's ever going to be my favourite tune, but it's one of the centrepieces of the New Year's Day ritual in this village. The local Gothenburg-system pub funds the village brass band, and one of the conditions is that the band plays in the pub on New Year's Day. The place turns into a giant sweat lodge, falling over is not an option, and you see people wrestling their way towards the bar with notes clenched between their teeth because getting their hands down to their pockets would take five minutes' preparation. When the crowd hits its densest, the band strikes up Highland Cathedral. A Highland piper stands on the bar to play it along with them: the noise of people talking is such that the first year I went I *couldn't hear him* from twenty feet away. I don't know if Hamish Henderson ever went but I imagine he'd have liked it. === 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
Re: [scots-l] Highland Cathedral
Nigel Gatherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I been looking (fruitlessly) for some background to the tune Highland Cathedral by Michael Korb Ulrich Roeve. Can anyone tell me more, or point me to a likely source? According to http://www.rampantscotland.com/let010818.htm: | The pipe-tune, amazingly, was written by two Germans, Uli Roever and | Michael Korb. The words and music are intended to emphasise the feeling | of a National Anthem. The story goes that, under the reign of King James | I of Scotland, all clan chiefs were asked to meet in a secret place, the | Highland Cathedral, to pledge an ending to their constant feuding, and | live in peace. This they did and peace reigned but, alas, only for as | long as the king lived. I seem to have heard somewhere that Messrs. Roever and Korb hail from Berlin, but don't know how reliable this is. I've sent a message to the pipe major of the local pipe band, who have recorded HC on their latest CD (which pipe band hasn't, anyway?). Maybe they, being rather big shots in the German bagpipe scene, know something we don't. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. -- Stephen Wright Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
