Mary Umbarger wrote:
There is a fiddle player here in North Carolina that play a reel
he calls Brilliancy. It sounds a lot like The Mathematician.
does
anyone know of an abc listing on this?
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Date: Friday, March 28, 2003 04:29:25
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Subject: [scots-l] Re: Looking for a tune
Dear Nigel,
Thank you for the correction! I just started using a new program and
didn't realize I had not made the adjustment.
Mary Umbarger wrote:
...Thanks...for the ABC's. It's somewhat different from the one
here, however, it could be in the musicians intrepretation of the
tune.
With many of these old tunes - especially from the US - there are as
many interpretations of a tune as there are musicians who play it.
Anyone been to Kilsyth? I have a friend who lives there now, says
it's boring, in his thick Glasgowegian brogue. Is he right? :-)
He's probably just spoilt by the cultural buzz and 24/7 excitement of
Cumbernauld next door.
I think the nearest regular Scottish music is Fintry one way and
Thank you for the correction! I just started using a new program
and didn't realize I had not made the adjustment.
Big improvement, but you still haven't quite beaten it - superfluous
X- header lines and too much quoted (and double-spaced) text.
The default settings you started with appear to
Jack Campin wrote:
Is that high B in bar 9 for real, or an octave-out slip? (Those are
exasperatingly easy to make in ABC, it's the main source of error in
the notation).
I always put in at least one deliberate mistake so that people don't
steal my work and pass it off as their own. (That's
Having to make it much harder this year since there are resident
geniuses in our midst. I'll also have to think of a suitable prize.
This time there are twenty questions, twenty points. If - like question
1 - there are two parts to the answer, each correct answer will win
half a point. My decision
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
...I think I've got another version in a Dave Swarbrick book in the
cellar, which I'll transcribe later.
Here it is. Is it more like the one played round your bit?
X:519
T:Brilliancy Medley
B:Dave Swarbrick Takes a Bow
Z:Nigel Gatherer
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:A
g2 | aece aece |
X:518
T:Brilliancy Medley
D:Eck Robertson, Master Fiddler
As I had suspected.. An old-timey tune.. Have you ever heard Eck
Robertson?
Dear Toby,
I have never had the pleasure of hearing Eck Robertson. The fiddler I
have a recording of is Dr. Mac Snoderly from the Asheville,NC area.
I happened to come across Benjamin Franklin's Dissertation upon
Scottish Music this week - grandiloquent title for one page of
speculations that reads like a Usenet post. I'd expected to find
it on the web (e.g. as part of a collected Franklin site) but can't;
I might type it in next week if it
I would need books to answer most of those (especially number 10),
which is cheating, but I suspect the answer you're going to give
to this one is the wrong way round:
Finally, what are the original Scottish tunes on which the following
are based:
20. The Gallowglass (Ireland)
Surely it's
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:16:47 + (GMT)
Nigel Gatherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. What the connects the titles of these old Scottish reels: John of
Badenyon; Och a Chiallain; Cuir sa Chiste Mhoir Mi.
Oh oh oh... I know this one. :-) In the Cape Breton tradition they are commonly known
as
This is a fife tune we used to play in the mid-70s in the 1st Maryland
Regiment, a Revolutionary War living history group. I learned it from Tom
Benoit, a fifer in the Old Guard, the US Army fife and drum corps. I've
adapted the original abc slightly to show how we played the tune - almost
the
Toby Rider wrote:
As I had suspected.. An old-timey tune.. Have you ever heard
Eck Robertson?
Yes, I have his 'Master Fiddler' collection on cassette. You need a
different pair of ears to appreciate it, in my opinion.
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Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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One of my students has asked me for a tune, The Sands of Kuwait. I
think I might have it on a record somewhere, but I can't remember
where. Does anyone have a transcription of it that they can let me have?
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Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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