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Thread #138412   Message #3249945
Posted By: GUEST,Elliot
03-Nov-11 - 05:55 PM
Thread Name: Help: Britten's The Highland Balou: Highland terms
Subject: RE: Help: Britten's The Highland Balou: Highland terms
I would certainly include Paisley in West Central Scotland. Your example notwithstanding, I would still discourage the umlauted u-style pronunciation in singing Burns, as it is hardly traditional in singing Scots (unless you could give me some examples of trained Scots singers interpreting folk songs with that vowel value, in which case I'd have to reconsider).