HALSWAY SUNDAY PLAYAROUND So many have commented on the Sunday evening being a successful element of the piping weekend, that I wonder if we ought to reduce some of the tuition session and introduce another informal play period.
Any comments? Alan Corkett -----Original Message----- From: Mike and Enid Walton [mailto:mikeande...@worcesterfolk.org.uk] Sent: 12 March 2009 05:16 To: Dartmouth NSP Subject: [NSP] Re: Tune Phrasing / Rants / Reels / Polkas I suppose it's a problem you face whenever playing music not from your own "tradition". It took a melodeon workshop in Ireland to make me realise that I had a local style of box playing, and that I want to keep it ! If it's an Irish reel or jig, it normally goes on the whistle now. Some polkas fit well on the box though. With the pipes, it's a question of whether we stick to the style for the area where the pipes came from, or just use them for our own local music, in our own local style. I play lots of Northumbrian tunes, but also nationally common tunes (including Jimmy sorry Jamie sorry Jimmy Allen) and I played Dorset Four Hand Reel on Sunday. I'm trying to learn the Worcestershire Hornpipe. Yes, I really enjoyed Halsway, especially the informal session / play-a-round on Sunday. I was struggling at times during the tutorials though. I wish my sight-reading was better ! Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Rhodes" <oxpi...@hotmail.com> To: "Dartmouth NSP" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:08 PM Subject: [NSP] Re: Tune Phrasing / Rants / Reels / Polkas > Hi Mike, > > This is a forum for the Northumbrian Pipes and the traditional music of > the north east, and as such is often very interesting and informative. > It helps us all to work on playing the pipes well and to figure out how > we can improve our playing in the Northumbrian tradition. But please > don't ask the northerners how we should play tunes in our own area! We > can be proud of our own tradition here, which is rich and thriving even > if we don't shout quite so loud. > > Let the northerners do the ranting, we can enjoy playing them however > we like. > > Wasn't Halsway great as always? > > All the best, > > Paul > > > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:23:19 +0000 > > To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu > > From: mikeande...@worcesterfolk.org.uk > > Subject: [NSP] Re: Tune Phrasing / Rants / Reels / Polkas > > > > So we've had a long discussion about rants, reels, polkas. > > > > I'm sure that those resident in the North-East should continue to > play these > > tunes with a good traditional rant rhythm. > > > > What about those pipers like me, resident in the far south ? Some of > the > > tunes we play on the pipes (Salmontails, Winster Gallop for instance) > are > > common across the whole country, and are played as polkas hereabouts. > When > > I introduce some other "North Eastern" tunes, even if I had the > ability to > > ensure they started as rants, the other mujsicians around me would > probably > > turn them into polkas. Yet tunes have always historically drifted > across > > the country, into Ireland and Scotland and back, etc such than you > often > > can't tell where they started ! > > > > It also begs the question as to whether, as a southerner, I should be > trying > > to play them as rants at all ! > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > __________________________________________________________________ > > Beyond Hotmail see what else you can do with Windows Live. [1]Find out > more! -- > > References > > 1. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665375/direct/01/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.10/1996 - Release Date: 03/11/09 20:42:00
