Fragment of music from the Aberdeen Breviary : Volume 1 or 'Pars Hiemalis'.Credit: Image courtesy of the National Library of Scotland
Fragment of music from the Aberdeen Breviary : Volume 1 or 'Pars Hiemalis'.Credit: Image courtesy of the National Library of Scotland
how does it sound on the bagpipe?
-PJ
Wow....I’m so excited...
I had a best friend who had an art scholarship to Edinburgh College of Art.
Make Scotland Catholic Again.
It’s Keith Richards’ first solo work
Looks like a palimpsest.
later
Nothing like a well aged haggis to tune up the vocal chords
Nowhere near as old, but this might interest you. I scanned Henry Livingston’s handwritten music manuscript book and transcribed the notes into Mozart, a musical transcription program. Got help since I can’t play an instrument from a musicology professor in a NY university. She taught me how to correct mistakes in a manuscript - SO MANY! I taught her how to transcribe her compositions into Mozart. We got thru about 1/2 of the manuscript before I moved onto another project.
The manuscript probably started near last quarter of 1700s. He joined the army under his cousin’s husband as a Major and was part of the 1775 invasion of Canada. One of the pages shows God Save the Queen crossed out and replaced with God Save the Congress.
One of his favorite sources was Richard Sheridan’s The Duenna. I purchased an original score and the YouTube link below is to the transcription from Henry’s music manuscript book followed by the transcription from the same song in The Duenna score.
Henry Livingston - Music Manuscript - Birks of Envermay - Page 49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyIx1SlSys0
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Another of my favorites I put up on YouTube:
Henry Livingston - Music Manuscript - Farewell to Lochabor - Alec Ramsay - Page 119-120
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Y59foHMT0
I thought it was beautiful and it made me smile to listen to it. Thanks for posting.
Felix Mendelssohn wrote a symphony entitled “Scottish”.
It was inspired by a vacation he spent exploring old areas of that country. This piece, and a similar one named “Fingals Cave are dark, moody pieces full of turbulence. Both end up with sounds of jubilation and triumph.
I used to play that CD when I had long Quarterly Reports to produce for my job.
S.C. Mrs. Pete said “Great article! Really enjoyed!” and shipped it off to the Choir director at the church! (We assume this is not a periodical he normally reads.) Most of the things I send her are normally deleted once she reads the headline! :)
After playing it, they discovered that they had it upside down and backwards................(obscure Beethoven reference).......
