Cheyenne Brown wrote:
Scottish music would be so dull if everyone played exactly how
people played hundreds of years ago.
While not disagreeing with anything you say about the excitement of
fusion music, I think you would be surprised at how foreign much
Scottish music of 'hundreds of year
> Cheyenne wrote: <<...the clarsach in Scotland right now...using it to back
> Gaelic singing...to back fast and furious fiddles, Shine is a trio of
> electro-harps that do funky bass lines and cool harmonies...when they're
> not busy backing up other instruments, they're all doing cool things
Cynthia Cathcart wrote:
I'm in a rather unique position with respect to the question of
authenticity and history: I play the wire-strung clarsach, whose
tradition was absolutely broken in the late 1800's, to lie extinct until
the 1950's. So I have little choice but to look to history, ther
Toby wrote (re Shine)
> Do they have an album? I have to hear this stuff!
They do indeed. It's called Sugarcane and you can get it from
www.musicscotland.com Their website is at www.shine3.com
Cynthia asked about harps taking the lead in bands: Phamie Gow was one
harpist who led her own grou
Cynthia Cathcart wrote:
My old piano professor made his specialty the music of the American
Ragtime era...Scott Joplin and all those cats. We have recordings of
Joplin playing (actually, I think they might be some sort of piano-rolls
that were made by him) and they're really awful. If that
Interesting that Scott Joplin comes up at this time. I'm taking a
course on the History of Jazz, and we just listened to what is probably
the same recording. It's a scratchy 78 RPM recording of Maple Leaf Rag
from a player piano playing a roll recorded by Joplin.
I actually heard it before the p
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 13:08, Cynthia Cathcart wrote:
>
> Agreed. I played harpsichord in a chamber orchestra when I was in college,
> and we had inflamed debates over how Mozart would have played his music! If
> we can't find ready agreement on the "inflection and accent" of Mozart, how
> can we
