Trash: V=2 --- Trash message 408 (current) --- Moved inbox/408 to trash/682. Trash: 1 messages trashed.. --- /u/guests/jc/Mail/inbox/409 From sentto-2709757-6638-1366958490-jc=trillian.mit.edu@returns.groups.yahoo.com Fri Apr 26 02:41:45 2013 To: tradtunes@yahoogroups.com From: Matt Seattle Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:41:09 +0100 Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?Re=3A_=5Btradtunes=5D_Who_exactly_is_David_Young=2C_and_what?= Reply-To: tradtunes@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) As far as I know, no published works. Who was he? David Johnson, my guide in these matters, writes: 'David Young, who divided his time between Aberdeen and Edinburgh, composed many sets of variations, and compiled the great McFarlane manuscript of 1740." DY signs himself as a "W.M.", writing master - a lawyer of some kind by profession? Four mss that I know of: the surviving two vols of the McFarlane, the Drummond Castle/Duke of Perth, the 'Bodleian'. McF - huge with many 'big' tunes; DP - smaller tunes with dances and some longer 'reels' without dances; Bod - dance tunes with dances. His works are at first sight stunning in their calligraphy, and on second sight in their musical fluency. When the same tune appears in different places, it is different, as though music is the air he breathes and he's not going to write it (or play it?) the same way twice. A towering figure, whose contribution, like those of other towering figures of the early 18th c, is now largely hidden, in my opinion because later ones who are better known fit more easily into later notions of 'folk music'. If I were wearing a hat, I would raise it to David Young. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:06 AM, addie_fiddle wrote: > ** > > > Who exactly is David Young, and what are his MS's and published works? > > I'm confused. > > It all started with the Fireside Reel. It turns out I play the 1734 > Highland Laddie var., but when I went looking for it, all I found was the > 1740 Fight about the Fireside version. > > Having been lost between Drummond Castle and the Duke of Perth... well, > what exactly, who exactly is David Young, and what are his MS's and > published works? > > Thanks! > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Silly Tune Title No.19 "Four Bare Legs Together" from the Wm Vickers Book - Northumberland 1773 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tradtunes to access options, archives and services.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tradtunes/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tradtunes/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: tradtunes-digest@yahoogroups.com tradtunes-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: tradtunes-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/