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Thread #9540   Message #62040
Posted By: Bruce O.
09-Mar-99 - 01:58 AM
Thread Name: Irish & Scottish Fiddle Music Books?
Subject: RE: Irish & Scottish Fiddle Music Books?
We're working our way up to it, just be patient. On www.bookfinder.com you can find for sale used copies of Charles Kilpatrick Sharpe's 'History of Witchcraft in Scotland', and I got the reprint of his 'A Ballad Book' there, which was the first to give us a full version of "Mary Hamilton" and some other Child ballads, and some other odds and ends like "The Sea Crab", and the "Dickie Macphalion" version of "Shule Aroon" He also noted some some ballad tunes that have been reprinted from his manuscripts at Harvard and NLS, a few being given by Child in vol. V. He just collected tunes. The Charles Sharpe of Hoddam that composed tunes, found in Niel Gow's 'Strathspey Reels', was his father. A sister was also a composer of Scots fiddle tunes. All 6 books of Gow's 'Strathspey Reels' and the 4 books of his 'Complete Repository' are available as reprints.