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Music to "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" -- the piano version?
Music to "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" -- the piano version?
Has anyone got it?? I do believe ashley macisaac plays it on one of his older recordings (1992??) before he turned himself into Canada's second biggest embarassment (the lead role shared by Chretien and that guy in Hamilton who made Mr. Elash stop playing his fiddle.)
I'm out.
-Mark
There is a setting of it (melody line only) in Richard Robinson's (online) Tunebook, with the title "All The Blue Bonnets Are Over The Border". I don't know about a full piano score.
This is in Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Book 3, available from www.rscds.org (Edinburgh, Scotland) or www.tac-rscds.org (Canada) for about $3.
Or it's in Scottish Tunes for Piano, Ossian, Cork, Ireland (about $15), but mine came from Colorado Springs Music (I think that's its web site name, too), Colorado, and it's probably available in many music stores or on the web, too.
The RSCDS has many books available with music and dance collections, and their early numbered books published many tunes from very early manuscripts that they are now archiving, so it's worth stocking up. I also like Scottish Country Dance Music Collected and Arranged for Dances of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Books 8 - 14 by Winifred Bird Matthew, known, I believe, as Alternate Tunes. Again, collected from old manuscripts and books.
Hope this helps. Hope this works - Jeremy told me I had to enable cookies, so I'm trying not to be a Luddite and do so -
If you can get ahold of a copy, check out the version (tune only, but chords too I think ??) that Kate Dunlay compiled for the Boston fiddle club (this year's tune list). It is based on a transcription by Natalie MacMaster, but with a bit of careful listening to Ashley's version you can embellish the tune quite nicely .. that's what I've done, because I really liked the MacIsaac recording! You're welcome to email me if you'd like the version that I use.
Irene
Music to "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" -- the piano version?
Music to "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" -- the piano version?
Has anyone got it?? I do believe ashley macisaac plays it on one of his older recordings (1992??) before he turned himself into Canada's second biggest embarassment (the lead role shared by Chretien and that guy in Hamilton who made Mr. Elash stop playing his fiddle.)
I'm out.
-Mark
# Posted on July 4th 2002 by no longer exists
Re: Music to
There is a setting of it (melody line only) in Richard Robinson's (online) Tunebook, with the title "All The Blue Bonnets Are Over The Border". I don't know about a full piano score.
# Posted on July 5th 2002 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: Music to
This is in Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Book 3, available from www.rscds.org (Edinburgh, Scotland) or www.tac-rscds.org (Canada) for about $3.
Or it's in Scottish Tunes for Piano, Ossian, Cork, Ireland (about $15), but mine came from Colorado Springs Music (I think that's its web site name, too), Colorado, and it's probably available in many music stores or on the web, too.
The RSCDS has many books available with music and dance collections, and their early numbered books published many tunes from very early manuscripts that they are now archiving, so it's worth stocking up. I also like Scottish Country Dance Music Collected and Arranged for Dances of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Books 8 - 14 by Winifred Bird Matthew, known, I believe, as Alternate Tunes. Again, collected from old manuscripts and books.
Hope this helps. Hope this works - Jeremy told me I had to enable cookies, so I'm trying not to be a Luddite and do so -
Cathy
# Posted on July 5th 2002 by cj
Re: Music to
Are you looking for any piano version, or a specific one?
# Posted on July 6th 2002 by The Whistler
Re: Music to
If you can get ahold of a copy, check out the version (tune only, but chords too I think ??) that Kate Dunlay compiled for the Boston fiddle club (this year's tune list). It is based on a transcription by Natalie MacMaster, but with a bit of careful listening to Ashley's version you can embellish the tune quite nicely .. that's what I've done, because I really liked the MacIsaac recording! You're welcome to email me if you'd like the version that I use.
Irene
# Posted on July 7th 2002 by IJ Shelton