Question
Chris Simon
party's?
Regards,
Chris
Ccc31807
John Recknagle has a book called "Wedding and Funeral Music" that is a
rehash of the old favorites, but is inexpensive and is a very good way
to have a number of tunes together without sorting through other books.
It has about 22 tunes, divided half between weddings and funerals,
costs about $11.00, and is a good collection for new pipers who are
beginning to get gigs. Good tunes, easy to learn, and easy settings.
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Don Robertson
Forest, Amazing Grace, Leaving Rue Vatanesh(sp), Kilworth Hills,
Highland Cathedral...etc slow stuff.
Weddings, The Old Boy, Clumsy Lover, Scotland The Brave, Mari's
Wedding...etc.
Parties, Play everything you know.
Cheers
Don
Chris Simon
On Sat, 04 Dec 1999 16:34:28 -0800, Don Robertson <pi...@pacwest.net>
wrote:
Chris Simon
On Sat, 04 Dec 1999 10:05:35 +0100, wp...@dial.active.ch wrote:
>Funerals: Laments - e.g. Flowers of the Forest (also at Burn's immortal
>memory). Amazing Grace very slow, I've also heard Highland Cathedral
>played.
>Weddings: Amazing grace (strangely enough), Mairies Wedding, Brown
>Haired Maiden, A Man's a Man if you want to stir it, any sort of
>singalong music the audience might associate with.
>Parties: Whatever they want to hear. jigs and reels to get em up and
>dancing!
>Bill
Chris Simon
On Sat, 04 Dec 1999 05:51:21 -0800, Ccc31807 <ccc3...@aol.com> wrote:
>In article <38478779.13851131@news-server>, csi...@bigpond.net.au
>(Chris Simon) wrote:
>> What songs are good to play for funerals, weddings and juat normal
>> party's?
>> Regards,
>> Chris
>
Bob Cameron
(Irish), Chi Mi na Mor-Bheanna (Mist Covered Mountains). Various Hymns
also appropriate.
Weddings- Do you mean at the church service or ath the reception- to
different types of celebrastion, two different bodies of tunes. It's a
good idea to find out what sort of ceremony - some churches have
particulalr requirements for music during the service- Hymns such as The
King of Love My Sheperd Is " are always "liturgically approprioate" for
most Christian services. I would not suggest "Clumsy Lover " as a
processional in a Catholic Mass, for example. I generally play slow airs
and waltzes withaan occasional jig or hornpipe mixxed in before the
service, livelier tunes after the service.
Other Processionals:, not necessarily Litug. Approp.:
Rose of Kelvin Grove, Highland Cathedral, Believe Me If All Those
Endearing Young Charms, Cailin Mo Run-sa, -I've also had requests for, and
playued:
Skye Boat Song, Fear a Bhata, Loch Tay Boat Song- hmm what is it with
weddings and boats? Mairi's wedding, and a couple of my own tunes by
request.
For recessionals, which are played after the service ends, technically, so
even in a very liturgically-oriented church, there's a lot of leeway here-
Usually livelier y tunes- bright 2/4 or 6/8 marches work well;
Mairi's Wedding- can be followed by any number of marches in segue as the
guests are going through the receiving line.
My own preference is to 6/8's going out- sweet Maid Of Mull works fine,
or I often play a set of my own , starting with one I wrote for a wedding a
few years ago- in any case, I segue right intop a whole string of them
while the receiving line ifs forming and progressing.
At the wedding reception, pretty much anything goes, but most groups will
not appreciate piobareachd or laments ;-)
Chris Simon wrote:
> Thanks alot,
>
> On Sat, 04 Dec 1999 10:05:35 +0100, wp...@dial.active.ch wrote:
>
> >Funerals: Laments - e.g. Flowers of the Forest (also at Burn's immortal
> >memory). Amazing Grace very slow, I've also heard Highland Cathedral
> >played.
> >Weddings: Amazing grace (strangely enough), Mairies Wedding, Brown
> >Haired Maiden, A Man's a Man if you want to stir it, any sort of
> >singalong music the audience might associate with.
> >Parties: Whatever they want to hear. jigs and reels to get em up and
> >dancing!
> >Bill
> >