Last week I undertook to find on the Internet a tune for a young piper.
I already have the dots for the jig "Troy's Wedding" in notation for the
fiddle. However this is surely a fairly recent pipe tune. Does anyone have
a pipe version of the tune with all the grace notes? Or can anyone direct
me
Philip Whittaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The pipers and our hosts often played Highland Cathedral which they are
> convinced is a traditional Scottish tune. Oh well, Over the Sea to Skye
> and all that. There is a tradition of non-Scots writing tunes which are
> readily accepted by Scots as
In a message dated 7/9/01 9:01:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Non-tempered scales are common in a lot of kinds of music, >>
I remember studying accompanying (piano) at college when I was working on my
degree is *classical* music. I was working with a violinist, and s
> I already have the dots for the jig "Troy's Wedding" in notation for the
> fiddle. However this is surely a fairly recent pipe tune. Does anyone have
> a pipe version of the tune with all the grace notes? Or can anyone direct
> me towards a collection which includes this tune in pipe notation?
> This is also to do with the fact that the twelfth-root-of-two (or 1.059)
> ratio applies to `physically ideal' strings that have no diameter. If
> you look at a piano with the various lids and covers off you will find
> that this is obviously not true, especially for the bass notes. It turns
> o
On 11 Jul, Anselm Lingnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just wait for another century or so. By that time Highland Cathedral
> (which AFAIK was written recently by two chaps from Berlin) *will* be a
> traditional Scottish tune.
I think it will take rather less than that. Our French hosts, who ha
Wendy Galovich wrote:
Comment:
Actualy that is not what I was saying. We are able to detect differences
in pitch but can't measure them. The human ear measures musical
intervals by tuning in the unison harmonics produced by the two notes.
Some are easy to do, such as the fifth, the third is mo
I'm correcting errors in my just sent e-mail
"unusuin" should read unison and condtitute constitute.
I also left out the Tertis last line quote.It is ".A note
infinitesimally flat or sharp
lacks the rich, round, penetrative, lucious sound that only a note
perfectly in tune will give you".
Alexand
I had
> difficulty explaining to our host family the meaning of the title "Amazing
> Grace". I think I was right in saying it was an American quaker hymn or
was
> that Lord of the Dance which was also played by our hosts in our honour!
> >
Hi Philip,
As a Quaker for many years, I can guarantee yo
Carol Thompkins wrote:
>
> I had
> > difficulty explaining to our host family the meaning of the title "Amazing
> > Grace". I think I was right in saying it was an American quaker hymn or
> was
> > that Lord of the Dance which was also played by our hosts in our honour!
> > >
> Hi Philip,
>
> As
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