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Re: modal system

Dear Simon,

> Roll on the complete Gaelic harpers edition of Carolan's tunes and
songs with appropriate tunings, suggested harmony / hands division and
ornamentation........ <

Quite! Roll on the Gaelic harp college and funded opportunities for
Gaelic harp/vocal education which wouldn't dismiss everything unproven
in an out of hand epistomologically tight-arsed fashion.

Beannachdan,


Alasdair


--- In clairseach@..., Simon Chadwick <simon@...> wrote:
>
> This is brilliant Alasdair but you give us as much work to do now as
> you have done yourself! Roll on the complete Gaelic harpers edition
> of Carolan's tunes and songs with appropriate tunings, suggested
> harmony / hands division and ornamentation........
>
> Simon
>





Mon Jan 8, 2007 12:12 am

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Alasdair, Have only had a brief look at new stuff....seems very interesting....looking forward to going over it in more detail when I get a chance...but yeah,...
John-Paul Patton
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Jan 5, 2007
1:16 am

Dear JP, Indeed, why no faoidheall mhór, good question. Working with only the two main major keys mentioned by Bunting works quite well and most of the time...
Alasdair Codona
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Jan 6, 2007
1:02 pm

This is brilliant Alasdair but you give us as much work to do now as you have done yourself! Roll on the complete Gaelic harpers edition of Carolan's tunes and...
Simon Chadwick
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Jan 7, 2007
2:46 pm

Dear Simon, ... songs with appropriate tunings, suggested harmony / hands division and ornamentation........ < Quite! Roll on the Gaelic harp college and...
Alasdair Codona
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Jan 8, 2007
12:16 am

Dear Alasdair I can not find the term 'Epistomologically tight-arsed fashion' anywhere in Bunting, whats its precedent? Best wishes Keith ... and ... and ... ...
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Jan 8, 2007
4:11 pm

Dear Keith, The precedent indicative has a very active voice these days but is way too imperfect. The precedent subjunctive is unfortunately only too passive...
Alasdair Codona
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Jan 8, 2007
8:57 pm

In clairseach@..., "sanger_keith" <sanger_keith@...> wrote:>> Dear Alasdair> > I can not find the term 'Epistomologically tight-arsed fashion' >...
Chad McAnally
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Jan 10, 2007
4:43 am

Ah,Petrie, it all makes perfect sense, I had always wondered how two pages from Petrie's collection turn up in the middle of one of the National Library of...
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Jan 10, 2007
4:29 pm

Dear Keith, Interpretatively, the evidence fits best with musical norms in my view if you treat it as the range of the singing bard. Singing bards in Gaeldom...
Alasdair Codona
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Jan 12, 2007
12:45 am

Dear Alasdair Thanks, I see where you are heading and yes my paragraph was badly written, I did mean a composite singing range and not one individual singer....
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Jan 13, 2007
1:34 pm

Dear Keith, ... thirds or more of what the harpers at the Belfast Festival played were Carolan pieces and that they also sung. < I find that the evidence is...
Alasdair Codona
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Jan 13, 2007
5:56 pm

Oh for more singers interested in this. presumably there is a big difference between the choices made by a singer-harper, and by a singer who has a harper...
Simon Chadwick
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Jan 14, 2007
11:14 am

Yes, it definitley needs more singers to be involved, but also a greater clarity of which period is being looked at.'the older system' performing syllabic...
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Jan 14, 2007
2:19 pm

Dear Keith, Would you know how many times does the word reacaire appear as part of the musical triumvirate versus how many times the word bàrd appears as part...
Alasdair Codona
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