![]() I don’t think there’s really any quarrel here if things can be looked at the right way round. Still a mammoth undertaking of huge value and the inaccuracies are just skipped over by people with an ear for the music but the uninformed could be sent well astray by some of the settings! ↳ The classical convention was just laid over the subtle differences in the Irish music ie key sigs sometimes wrong. As regards O’neills, it was actually notated by a classical musician who didnt get it all right!. ![]() Its a fine distinction but important IMO to get the right flavour from the dots. 4/4 tunes can be notated in 2/2 but they are not. Often trad 12/8 tunes are noted as 6/8, but they are not. this could not sensibly be broken into 6/8. So the 2 reels I linked to have a different beat so rolling in the barrel could not be 2/2 or 2/4 for that matter.Ī piece in 12/8 could be 123 123 12 12 12. ![]() A 3/8 piece could be notated in 6/8 but would not indicate the correct emphasis. big difference.Ī 6/8 piece could be played, and sadly often is, in 3/8. I mean within the structure and phrasing.Įg 6/8 and 3/4 2 groups of 3,or 3 groups of 2…. First 4 numbers only, pp.1-32, lacking pp.I dont mean notated Jerry, tunes can be notated in a number of ways, more or less accurately. Further notes, mostly on publication dates, appear throughout the book: some give alternate titles for certain reels. Plates seem slightly more worn than in Perth and IMSLP copies. The Grant's Rant 'Green Grows the Rashies O', correction of 'The Corporal' to 'G minor'. GB-DUcl H.92496 (First and Second Collections. GB-P Bd19 (1759, lacking titlepage, index, pp.95-96, and has some cropping to the tops of pages) ![]() (Glen 1, vii Alburger Grove) Other locations John Brysson managed the Edinburgh business for Bremner after the latter's removal to London. Lacks pp.17-20 images of these pages are from GB-P Bd19.īremner (c.1713-89) was a music-seller and publisher in Edinburgh until 1760, thereafter in London. P38 'The Fir Tree - Strathspey NB: The Strathspey Reels are play'd much slower than the others.' Copy notes page 6th.' 'The Fyket' has dots printed an octave lower to show where to play the bass notes on the harpsichord. Titlepage: 'In playing these Basses on the Harpsichord, their Octaves may be also struck, as represented by small Notes in the Fyket. Notesīremner presents simple, repetitive four-beat basslines.This book is clearly the source for 'Miss Murray's Reel' in The Caledonian Muse, where the musical text is identical. In this copy (GB-P Bd45), pp.17-20 are missing and have been supplied from the Gb-P Bd19. A note from Wighton inside the GB-DUcl copy reveals that the Scots Magazine advertised individual numbers as they were issued, e.g. Bremner, at the Harp & Hautboy, where may be had Also all sorts of Music & Musical Instruments as cheap as at LONDON.' The later London edition has had 'Edinburgh' replaced by 'LONDON', with 'in the Strand' added underneath, and 'as cheap as at LONDON' removed! So Bremner took the plates south with him in 1762, advertising his London premises in December of that year. The GB-A copy proves that the book was first published in Edinburgh, not London: 'Edinburgh, Printed & sold by Robt. (The form of the '8' in 6/8 matches that in Bremner's Curious Collection only in some numbers.) The engraving style of text (and sometimes music) changes between numbers. Published as 14 numbers of 8 pages each, c.1757-61, the last two numbers being published as the Second Collection. Robert Bremner, At the Harp and Hautboy Edition 77)Įdinburgh and London, Robert Bremner Printer I'll make you be fain to follow me (p.
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