[NSP] Re: Aural tradition

2009-05-29 Thread Geoff Jones
Can anyone tell me where I can obtain / purchase a copy of Hardy's book The Secret of Jigs? Yours aye, Geoff Jones [1]www.geoffjones.info Anthony Robb wrote: Hello John Many musicians kept books of dots to help them remember tunes. Better scholars than me have pointed

[NSP] Re: Aural tradition

2009-05-29 Thread Francis Wood
On 29 May 2009, at 09:09, Geoff Jones wrote: The Secret of Jigs A search here found it immediately: http://www.amazon.co.uk Francis To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: Aural tradition

2009-05-27 Thread Ian Lawther
Anthony Robb wrote: Many musicians kept books of dots to help them remember tunes. On reading this my thoughts went straight to an incident when I was a teenager in a pipe band. The Pipe Major, probably around 60 then, was teaching a group of us youngsters a tune. One of my fellow teens