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Karen, I use Barfly from http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com/ Alasdair is it just me or is that second half of Ríon an Uaigneas suspiciously similar to Tommy...
... Thank you, Brendan. It's a real treasure-trove. ........... On another subject, I'm looking for some information on a tune that has been passed down in my...
Simon Having spent 20 minutes trying to download the MS29 version and finding after all that I had the wrong page ( is there any corelation between the MS page...
... Thank you, Alasdair - that's it! I wonder when the "kitty" lyrics became attached to "Comin Thro' The Rye". "Once there was a little kitty, White as the...
TaraWatch.org 05 March 2007 'Saint Patrick's Day Poetry on Tara' TaraWatch is proud to announce an open invitation for all to join in the festivities of Saint...
Simon Interesting, the Rochead and Son version must be after 1805 when they left Greenside place, and predated March 1818 when the company went backrupt. They...
Dear Simon and Keith, I'd hoped to have the Cúileann as the last of two final Gaelic harmony articles, partly to allow me to perform a kind of coup de grâce...
Dear Alasdair Glad to hear you are tackling the Cuileann, I hope we have not trod on your toes by prempting you somewhat. I have always wondered about how...
Dear Keith, I had planned to tackle it in an article but circumstances have prevented this so no toe treading here. ... conventionally trained musician trying...
Dear Alasdair Could I believe that an engraver might have reinterpreted Buntings draft chords, well not an engraver but with the engraver Skarrat being also a...
Dear Keith, ... that things remain unchanged for hundreds let alone thousands of years simply does not stand up in the more complex societies. Its one of the...
Dear Simon Having had Alasdair re engaging my piping mode, I suddenly remembered that there is another reference to it in Scotland, not with a hard copy of the...
Dear Alasdair As probably a Romanised Briton I can see the direct connection between Patrick and a toga but not sure I follow the kilt logic, the concept of...
Thanks Keith, I am reading all this fine discussion even if I dont have the time to weigh in at the moment. Thanks for that interesting reference. Yes the...
Dear Keith, ... between Patrick and a toga but not sure I follow the kilt logic, the concept of wearing one piece of cloth as a garment probably arose ...
http://tinyurl.com/yohddk http://tinyurl.com/2aaekx Sorry Alasdair, no such great antiquity for the kilt. It seems to have developed from an eccentric habit of...
Dear Simon, Whoops again, another bad example. The main point of whatever I read was that you don't wear trousers with a toga and that, by not wearing trews...
Dear Simon, ... version is recorded or written down thain it is potentially available to influence later versions. There have been some interesting studies of...
John Purser published the battle of Harlaw from some English 17th century ms, and the suggestion that the Brosnachadh fitted it, in his book "Scotlands Music"...
... Simon - this is very interesting. I'm sure I've heard a recording of this tune somewhere before, but I can't think of where just now... It is a nice tune....
Well remembered, I could only think of a version by Andrew Lawrence King on one of his old consort CDs. It was the singing I was particularly interested in....
Dear Simon, I have to be harsh here and say that this attempt unnecessarily overrides the scansion of the poetry and doesn't well adapt the utilised theme to...
Alasdair - thanks, that is useful. I have the Thompson 1968 edition, the brackets are as you mention, the notes explain varint readings from the mss. 2 mss...
I started on "The MacLeods' Salute" from The Kilberry Book of Ceol Mor last week and came up with a coupled hands crunluath ornament that I like. I play g' a'...
Simon The MS Purser quote is in the BL catalogue, under Add 10444, dated between 1625 or according to an article in Music & Letters possibly 1650ish. It...
