Music and Society in Lowland Scotland in the Eighteenth Century by David Johnson £12.34

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When it first appeared in 1984, 'Scottish Fiddle Music in the Eighteenth Century' was a trail-blazing book, exploring 100 years of completely unknown fiddle music leading up to the Perthshire maestro Neil Gow.
Two decades later, the book is still essential reading for everyone concerned with Scots fiddling and its history - the influences on it of Corelli, Highland pipers, army trumpeters, the Church of Scotland, Purcell, the 1707 Act of Union - the tangled way it has been transmitted, both aurally and through written texts.
For players, the book includes 90 pieces of music, scrupulously edited from eighteenth century sources. These range from short dances to fiddle pibrochs and sonatas on Scots tunes, and include pieces by McGibbon, Munro, Oswald, McLean, Dow, Mackintosh, and Neil and Nathaniel Gow.

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When it first appeared in 1984, "Scottish Fiddle Music in the Eighteenth Century" was a trail-blazing book, exploring 100 years of completely unknown fiddle music leading up to the Perthshire maestro Niel Gow. Two decades later, the book is still essential reading for everyone concerned with Scots fiddling and its history - the influences on it of Corelli, Highland pipers, army trumpeters, the Church of Scotland, Purcell, the 1707 Act of Union - the tangled way it has been transmitted, both aurally and through written texts. For players, the book includes 90 pieces of music, scrupulously edited from eighteenth-century sources. These range from short dances to fiddle pibrochs and sonatas on Scots tunes, and include pieces by McGibbon, Munro, Oswald, McLean, Dow, Mackintosh, and Neil and Nathaniel Gow.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: unique - quite excellent, 2 Jan 2007 By  Mr. Ian A. Macfarlane "almac1975" (Fife, Scotland) - See all my reviews       This is a scholarly book of the best kind by a man who is both an authority and a great enthusiast. It explores the rich world of Scots fiddle music in the 18th. century and the crossover between native tradition, fiddle composers, the drawing room and the influence of continental models. There are extensive and very interesting notes on the background of the tunes and performing styles, but the glory of the book is in the tunes themselves - wonderful airs like 'The Collier's Daughter', drawing room pieces like 'Rory Dall's Port' (the basis for Burns's 'Ae Fond Kiss'), variation sets such as the beautiful scordatura 'Lea Rig' and the amazing 'Black Jock', pibrochs, minuets, variation sonatas, sonatas by McGibbon, James Oswald, John Reid, the Earl of Kelly, reels, hornpipes, strathspeys and jigs. The books is beautifully printed and presented. I don't know another book like it. I have owned it for about eight years now and I come back to it again and again. For anyone interested in this field, player or scholar, it is essential.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews

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