Re: gilded script on the inlay

[Beverly Woods <tradmusic...>]

Nothing like? Are you sure? It seems to me that if you look at the older 
Scots and Irish sources there is evidence for improvisation over chords
and/or within a chord structure. The pages and pages of variations of tunes
that J. Scott Skinner was famous for, likewise the variations in the
O'Carolan repertoire, are 2 examples that come to mind, and I was under the
impression that there were musical competitions in improvisation skills in
both areas before the 20th century. (How else would they have come up with
all of those thousands of tunes?)

As a current matter, when I'm playing a contradance using English, Irish and
Scottish tunes with excellent musicians, there is often melodic as well as
backup improvisation going on.

Beverly

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>From: lipkowitz (at) aa(dot)edu
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: RE: gilded script on the inlay
>Date: Fri, Jan 18, 2002, 7:50 PM
>

> There is nothing like improvisation over a series of chords, or blues, or
> banjos (for that matter) in English/Irish/Scots music.  This stuff derives
> from black music. 

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