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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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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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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Just got my new issue of Fiddler’s Magazine today – includes an article on scordatura in Irish fiddling!
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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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