[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-11-04 Thread Gibbons, John
|dcB dcB|dGB c2e|dcB dcB|Ggf d2 e|dcB dcB|dGB c2e|d/c/B/A/B/G/ B>cd|dgf d2|| From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gretton [i...@gretton-willems.com] Sent: 02 November 2010 10:25 To: 'Matt Seattle' Cc: 'NSP group' Subject: [NS

[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-11-02 Thread Paul Gretton
ufay, Ockeghem and Josquin. Cheers, Paul Gretton -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Matt Seattle Sent: 02 November 2010 10:58 To: Gibbons, John Cc: Richard York; NSP group Subject: [NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interestin

[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-11-02 Thread Matt Seattle
I see why you prefer the 3-strain Reavely version as more consistent, but the Crawhall strain 4 is worth having - perhaps better if tweaked to fit the others from Reavely. I should have another look in that case, thanks. I have been thinking about this, and Lord Randal

[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-11-01 Thread Gibbons, John
abilities are common to both. John From: Matt Seattle [theborderpi...@googlemail.com] Sent: 01 November 2010 12:35 To: Gibbons, John Cc: Richard York; NSP group Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting! Same tune, different version. The

[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-11-01 Thread Matt Seattle
Same tune, different version. The one I give is from Reavely, as the title but not the tune is given by Bewick, and Reavely is the one I found for the 1998 edition; it's also structurally more consistent than Crawhall's. It's not in the 1986 edition. The 2010 edition is an update of

[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-11-01 Thread Julia Say
On 1 Nov 2010, Francis Wood wrote: > > On 1 Nov 2010, at 12:19, Gibbons, John wrote: > > I should get the new edition too... > > You should. And so should everyone else. Absolutely excellent! Well, if we're into blatant advertising: Price 4 UKP to NPS members, 7 UKP to others. Carriage is 1.5

[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-11-01 Thread Francis Wood
On 1 Nov 2010, at 12:19, Gibbons, John wrote: > I should get the new edition too... You should. And so should everyone else. Absolutely excellent! Francis To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-11-01 Thread Gibbons, John
: [NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting! I've no idea whether it's got anything to do with Lord Randal. I was made aware, from my reading, of the idea that 'Billy Boy' and 'Lord Randal' are sort-of counterparts to each other, humorous and tragic

[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-11-01 Thread Matt Seattle
I've no idea whether it's got anything to do with Lord Randal. I was made aware, from my reading, of the idea that 'Billy Boy' and 'Lord Randal' are sort-of counterparts to each other, humorous and tragic, and both have relatively old antecedents. The Note in Bewick merely hints at

[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-11-01 Thread Richard York
.. that's a cunning way of reminding me that while I still have your original yellow Bewick book, I ought to buy the new one too, Matt :-) I will order one anyway, but do you mean by this you think it's not Lord Randall either? (Sorry, being thick here - it'll probably be clearer once I own t

[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-11-01 Thread Matt Seattle
"Where have you been all the night?" she describes as a "Scotch Tune". It's tempting to think she's mis-remembered the line in "Billy Boy", See the Note in the recently published NPS edition of Bewicks Pipe Tunes, which has a tune of the title which is *not* Billy Boy

[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-10-31 Thread Richard York
It's difficult to know. I don't want to hijack too much time from the pipes here, and am asking the hurdy gurdy group to share any views on this. There are arguments for and against both dulcimer & gurdy as we know it, in the text. Thanks for the help, though! Best wishes, R

[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-10-31 Thread Francis Wood
On 31 Oct 2010, at 16:13, Richard York wrote: > Henry Mayhew in the 1850's interviewed "Old Sarah" a blind Londonstreet > hurdy gurdy player who was taught in the very early years of the 1800's > to play what she called the "cymbal". "Hurdy gurdy" has been used variously in the past to descr

[NSP] Re: Tune hunt: OT but I hope interesting!

2010-10-31 Thread Richard York
John, I am both in your debt, and hugely impressed at the speed and thoroughness of your series of replies... you obviously got the proverbial bit between the teeth! Fantastic - I like ending up with Marlborough! And what's more it's a tune I can play on the gurdy when talking ab