Music

Fringe 2023

Allan MacDonald (jnr) - flute, bodhran Ronald MacDonald - piano Iain MacMaster - whistle, accordion Allan MacDonald (snr) - pipes Òrain agus port no dhà aig cèilidh còmhla ri Raghnall agus Ailean – join Ronald and Allan MacDonald (and friends) for a cèilidh of Gaelic, Scottish, and Irish tunes and songs.

MacFarlane Manuscript

TL;DR Collection is available here. Notes The Young MS, commonly referred to as the ‘MacFarlane Manuscript’ (for whom it was written), dates from c. 1740. Little is known of MacFarlane himself, but the manuscript is thought to have been made widely accessible across Edinburgh by its patron (Johnson 1997, 11) and its material widely disseminated throughout Fiddle repertory of the later 18th century.

The collection

Page Title Page 01 Dainty Davie Pages 02-06 Rattling Roaring Willy Pages 06-08 Lass of Livingston The Lass of Livingston Pages 08-12 Cailleach Ouir Pages 12-13 New Claret Pages 14-15 Pease Strae Pages 16-17 Lord Forbes’s March Pages 18-22 Leith Wynd Pages 22-25 John Ochiltree Pages 26-29 Jenny Jo!

Lassus: Exaudi Deus

Score is available here (.pdf, 90kB) Parts (audio) For own rehearsal. Apologies for these being done with MIDI… All parts Your browser does not support the audio element. Soprano Your browser does not support the audio element.

Various musical settings

Ala da’lona score Algerian maybe? Useful one to have up the sleeve for teaching groups. Brochan lòm score Classic, porridge-themed ditty. Tha Thìde Agam Éirigh score Transcribed from Music of the Western Isles: School of Scottish Studies

Getting SCORE running with DOSBox and OS X

SCORE is a music engraving tool. Simply speaking there are two different orientations of music notation software. Firstly there are formatters. LilyPond is a good example of a pure formatter. It works like a secretary you dictate a letter and she formats it for you in her own “handwriting” (only that music is much more difficult to handle than text).

mrmr performance using OSC with Pure Data (pd)

mrmr is a project which enables the use of OSC using an iOS-based client such as the iPhone, iPod touch or the iPad. Its functionality extends to integrate with on-board controls such as the accelerometer, which may be used in conjunction with other inputs in live performance.