Planning about a week trip to Scotland in August – rent a car and explore – any suggestions for good live music spots, jam sessions, festivals?
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new page
Posted on May 22, 2009 by fiddlenb
http://aroundtheworldmusic.wordpress.com/my-musicvideos/ check out the tab or link, adding my music and videos
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Scordatura in Biber’s music
Posted on May 21, 2009 by fiddlenb
Yesterday I posted a research paper I wrote last summer that included discussion of Biber and scordatura. Here is a great youtube video about scordatura in Biber’s Mystery Sontatas – great descriptions!
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Currently reading….
Posted on May 20, 2009 by fiddlenb
A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography – by Erika Brady
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More on Scordatura in Ireland -but with a hardanger!
Posted on May 20, 2009 by fiddlenb
Caoimhin Mac Aoidh states that “the most common reason [for scordatura tuning] in Ireland…was to enable fiddlers to play long droning pipe imitations.” Here is an fiddler (Caoimhin O Raghallaigh of Dublin) with pipes, but look – it’s a hardanger fiddle!
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Maeve Donnelly – scordatura of Ireland
Posted on May 20, 2009 by fiddlenb
Found out about Maeve through the Fiddler’s Magazine article “The Scordatura Tradition in Irish Fiddle Playing” by Caoimhin Mac Aoidh. Maeve of east County Galway uses scordatura in the above youtube video.
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5/20/09
Posted on May 20, 2009 by fiddlenb
Just got my new issue of Fiddler’s Magazine today – includes an article on scordatura in Irish fiddling!
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Scordatura around the world… Biber
Posted on May 20, 2009 by fiddlenb
Biber – 1712 reprint Paper from my research and bib class, July 08. Sorry the footnotes didn’t all transfer…. will work on that! Music History: A Comparison Of Heinrich Biber and Arcangelo Corelli Music history, as a process of creating categories (periods, styles, and so on) and then fitting individual composers into those categories, [...]
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