A Short History of Scottish Country Dancing

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Scottish Dance Music and Highland Bagpipe music are possibly of minority interest on this very international forum but for those who may be interested I pass on the following.
The tune I highlighted above as being particularly 'Scottish' was given as an example but the tune title was not given on the recording.
(To recap the tune was only called 'Highland Schottische' and was played by The John Ellis Band on his LP 'The Thistle and the Shamrock'.)
Meeting a senior accordionist friend recently, originating from the Inverness area and with a particular leaning to Highland Bagpipe music, allowed me to pass the question to him. His consultation with another senior figure in the scene, in Aberdeenshire, revealed that the tune is in fact called 'Willie McColl' and was composed by the well known composer PM Willie Lawrie of WW1 era.

 

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Scottish Dance Music and Highland Bagpipe music are possibly of minority interest on this very international forum but for those who may be interested I pass on the following.
The tune I highlighted above as being particularly 'Scottish' was given as an example but the tune title was not given on the recording.
(To recap the tune was only called 'Highland Schottische' and was played by The John Ellis Band on his LP 'The Thistle and the Shamrock'.)
Meeting a senior accordionist friend recently, originating from the Inverness area and with a particular leaning to Highland Bagpipe music, allowed me to pass the question to him. His consultation with another senior figure in the scene, in Aberdeenshire, revealed that the tune is in fact called 'Willie McColl' and was composed by the well known composer PM Willie Lawrie of WW1 era.

Most of the music we like today composed in 20th century. Except classical music, most of other older music doesnt suit well to our taste. Maybe British islands music is different on this matter as I observe, because they are well preserved since medieval times, but maybe thats a phenomenon to update music to peoples tastes to their century or that was a unique event. There are nice older tunes but rare in Folk music in general. Maybe nobody knew other countries culture that much. But music of different cultures standardized in the 20th century. Folk music is anonymous and changes, evolves to the best version in time by public. However, maybe coming from the rise of nationalism or ability to communicate each other through various technologies, every country made their own popular and good folk repertoire and presented these to the world through radio, Vinyl and other media possible, they probably got help from music professionals, supported and/or sponsored by governments. Not to determine a winner but Soviets done that very well.

 

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murathan: Thanks for your reply. I think I agree with your sentiments about how fluid the whole folk/traditional music scene is.
The biggest help by far in helping us to navigate the jungle of music is the internet.

 

[murathan]

murathan: Thanks for your reply. I think I agree with your sentiments about how fluid the whole folk/traditional music scene is.
The biggest help by far in helping us to navigate the jungle of music is the internet.

Certainly... Someone must show a piece in the original style. With the sheet music added, then something could happen to play a different genre than your own country music.