The folk music of Scotland, as well as of other regions whose music has been shaped by the vocabulary of Western concert music, has seen performances that fall along an entire continuum from formal arrangements for voice and piano to pure re-creations of folk practice, with percussion and full-throated singing untouched by classical vocal technique. This attractive Canadian disc falls near the middle of the continuum. The music comes from Scotland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with texts by the likes of ...
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The folk music of Scotland, as well as of other regions whose music has been shaped by the vocabulary of Western concert music, has seen performances that fall along an entire continuum from formal arrangements for voice and piano to pure re-creations of folk practice, with percussion and full-throated singing untouched by classical vocal technique. This attractive Canadian disc falls near the middle of the continuum. The music comes from Scotland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with texts by the likes of Walter Scott and Robert Burns as well as lesser-known and wholly anonymous creators. The music frequently displays the "Scottish snap" syncopated figure that persisted for centuries and gained new life as a stand-in for African rhythms in American blackface minstrelsy. The program is split into the effective division of love and war, with the war half subdivided into music of wars, lamentations, and more war music. Each half contains instrumental pieces as well as vocal solos and duets....
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