Classical Flute in Trad Style

Jim Troy · Post by **Jim Troy** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:45 pm

perhaps you two should go get a room .

i'll come along and watch , maybe play a bar or two of The Bolero ..

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:52 pm

Hey, this is a family forum! Lisping and bolero
corrupt the youth.

Wait a minute...can I play bolero?
Stay tuned. Back presently.

Terry McGee · Post by **Terry McGee** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:13 pm

Many years back (1980's?) I was asked to give a little talk to the local early music society about the wooden flute. They mostly comprised recorder and keyboard players. I make the occasional 1-key baroque flute, but I don't play it convincingly, so I was able to demonstrate one, but when it came to the end I used a medium holed Irish style flute to play a closing piece with my friend on the harpsichord. We had practiced up a suite by a French composer - can't remember who - but I do remember it ended in a lovely gigue. After the item, all the players in the audience rushed up to see what wonderful new edition we were playing from - "such life, such verve" - only to be dissapointed to find it was the same regular edition they played from. I suddenly realised that we had played the gigue like a jig. Makes you wonder ....

Wasn't Pete Seegar a leader in snitching back cute classical pieces for folk instruments? I seem to remember hearing him play J.S. Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" on the 5-string banjo as the "Jumping Jesus Jig".

Terry

Jim Troy · Post by **Jim Troy** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:59 pm

Jumping Jesus Jig ? i'll have that one . ( 1980 , ouch ! i just turned around to look at something , and hey , where'd the time go ?)
i'll be playing at a Mass next Easter , and i look forward to sliding that one in at the "pleased to meet you" moment .

Jim , how's the Bolero going ? could you maybe play it as a fling , for the dancers ?
i can see it being a good one for an English country dance , like The Miller's ?

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:32 am

"Gigue" = "Jig" ???

Mere coincidence or entomological connection?

Debate.

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:37 am

Cathy Wilde wrote:"Gigue" = "Jig" ???

Mere coincidence or entomological connection?

Debate.

And then update.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigue

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:40 am

and yet another brilliant debate bites the dust.

Wormdiet · Post by **Wormdiet** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:05 am

WikiPedia - the Walmart of Knowledge

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:36 am

ya just gotta love this millennium!

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:46 am

Holy mackerel, you mean I was actually right about something (or at least right according to Wiki)?

Cool.

But alas, I was so in the mood for random conjecture today.

THUS .... in light of Jim's original question, I have been thinking about 'classical' mazurkas. I imagine that might be a good area to look for more trad interpretations, being slower and pretty and all .... hey, 'polkas, schottisches and waltzes' as Snoopy once said, it's all dance music whether a composer borrowed or cribbed from some local music and incorporated it into his suite or whether a guy's busking it on the corner ....

I was listening to Nomos ('Set You Free' -- Lordy, Nomos were great) on the way into work today and you know that last little track they have; just Niall and guitar (and then some brushes to get a bit jazzy) -- if there was another band that could get the nuances perfectly, my money would be on Niall and the gang.

Oooh, random blatherings. Sorry. Back to work.