strathspey@strathspey.org:43945

Rosemary Coupe

Re: Scottish dancing

Jan. 29, 2006, 10:52 p.m. (Message 43945, in reply to message 43933)

Richard Goss writes,
>  At the same time, one must keep in mind that the sources for most of our 
> traditional music in Scotland comes from South Britain. If you check the 
> various collections, they were published in London, because the Scots in 
> Scotland could not make any money doing so.

That's true of the earlier 18th century; Oswald and Bremner both started 
their publishing career in Edinburgh but moved to the greener fields of 
London. However, didn't this change in the later 18th century with the 
flowering of the Scottish Enlightenment? Many music collections were 
published in Edinburgh in the 18th and early 19th centuries, including 20 or 
so by the Gows alone.

Rosemary Coupe
Vancouver