I saw this posting on uk.music.folk, and it strikes me that the
material contained may well be of interest to members of this list.
Best wishes,
Paul Woods
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Embro, Embro
the hidden history of Edinburgh in its music
Jack Campin
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A CD-ROM of the music of Edinburgh, containing:
* 250 song texts
* 750 computer-playable and printable tunes
(ABC, GIF, and QuickTime formats)
* hundreds of pages of historical commentary
* designed so you can print songs or tunes as you need them
* ABC software so you can adapt the tunes yourself
The songs and tunes are from manuscripts, broadsides, old sheet music
and rare books. Many have never been published before, or not reprinted
for centuries. Their background is researched from equally unusual sources.
The histories of Edinburgh and Scottish music have never been seen this
way before.
songs on Burke and Hare
regimental farewells
temperance songs
mine disaster ballads
a fanfare for announcing death sentences
a hymn tune named after your street
songs of famine
street cries
14 tunes and a song about Edinburgh's bridges
seven pieces about wells
satires on George IV and Queen Victoria
songs of the witches
what Queen Anne wanted to do with the Scottish royal sceptre
children's games
tunes for the old trade guilds
songs by Lady Nairne
reels by Anon
the music of the Porteous Riot
songs about golf and curling
a Chartist anti-war song
a beer commercial of 1839
a hymn for repentant prostitutes
a strathspey by a 19th century busker
a reel by an 18th century earl
a lynch mob song
songs about newfangled electric street lights
a jig about theatrical censorship
a Tory song against the right to vote
centuries of military incompetence set to music
supernatural ballads
football songs
police marches
fishermen's songs
tunes for bankers
feminist songs
Masonic tunes
four-part hymn settings
prison songs
tunes for fiddle, pipes, lute, piano, harp, flute, fifes, recorder,
trumpet, bugle and guitar
multiple versions of tunes back to their earliest forms
sex, drink, drugs, bigotry and mindless violence
songs in Scots, English, Gaelic and French
the astonishing stories behind familiar tunes
learn which character famed in folksong had three testicles
period reportage, polemic and poetry
Scots glossary
unequalled chronology of the city's history
Macintosh and Windows/ISO dual-format. Needs a web browser (not supplied;
almost any web browser, even text-only). Works fast even on very old and
low-spec computers. Long-term support with free updates via the Internet
for registered users. No tricky code; won't turn into a beermat in five
years' time from software incompatibilities.
Contents
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Introduction
Scottish music as urban music
The Smoke and Utter Ruin of the Bloody City of Edinburgh
the town as viewed from outside
Just As Good As You, Sir
arrivals and welcomes
Who's Got Feet Like Arthur's Seat?
places around the city
The Oldest Cheeses Have the Most Mites
great families and big houses
Sluttish, Nasty and Slothful
the people of Edinburgh
If My Heart It Should Break, I Wad Never Get Free
work, trades and occupations
Dangerous and Filthy Demonstrations of Tumultuous Joy
sport, play, fun and the arts
I Thought It Lang To Lie My Lane
love and sex
Hushie Ba My Bairnie
mothers, children and school
Buy My Caller Herrin
street life, street cries and street music
To Brotherhood Great Powers Belong
clubs, cliques and conspiracies
Oh, Let Me Aff This Ae Time
crime, police and the law
There's Nae Germs Aboot the Hoose
disease and disaster
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego As Anarchists
religion and the Kirk
The Fairest Tapestry That Ever I Saw
war and the army
When Order and Law May Be Safely Defied
politics, riot and repression
The Flowers of Edinburgh
a miscellany of tunes
Sad's the Day I Ran Away From Edinburgh Town
departures and farewells
Appendices
Chronology
A Calendar of Edinburgh Celebrations
Scots Glossary
User Guide
Ordering Information
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19.50 pounds (including postage & packing to Europe or North America).
Payment in UK currency; no credit cards yet.
Euros, maybe - ask. Other currencies, not for a while; banks don't
want small traders in the UK selling to Americans, Canadians or
Australians so these might have to wait until I can find somebody
to hold stocks or handle payment for me in those countries.
Can I Try It Out?
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I've put up a similar work for free downloading as a sampler. It's on
a much smaller scale but uses the same techniques:
Music of Dalkeith: <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/dalkeith/Dalkeith.htm>
Dalkeith is a small market town five miles south of Edinburgh and not
far from where I now live. I presented this in October 2000 as a
lecture/concert (with a scratch band made up of me and my friends)
to the Dalkeith History Society, in the ballroom of Dalkeith Palace.
Some of the music we played had been written specifically for that
room and had not been played in it for 200 years. I found more than
enough material for a performance an hour and a half long.
Contact information
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<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> me
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/embro/> the CD-ROM
Email: preferably to "embro" at the site I'm posting from; "jc" has
been my usual address up to now but it's getting so overwhelmed
with spam that its days as a useful address are numbered.
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Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760
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