S 08 E 03 My Approach to Music Theory and the Historical Repertoire

Tunes: Bremner: St. Paul/Aberdeen, Bristol John Murphy: Miss Boswell’s Jig William Dixon: Hacky Honey +X+X+X+X+X+ Here is a link to the music Theory video Rod shared with me about the way white supremacists have used music Theory: https://youtu.be/Kr3quGh7pJA?si=GQqtJUc7O6VFbIc6 I recorded this episode about a month before this article often discussed with some sort of click bait title like “Pythagoras was wrong about music theory” (speaking of clickbait, did you know academics and journalists alike don’t often get a say on the title of their work, so if you see a particularly egregious title, don’t necessarily hold it against the author). The abstract is that our “western musical theory and the idea that there was universal harmonies, and that good music is just about consonance and not dissonance” is obviously a really limited perspective on what good music is, and intrinsically apparent to anyone who plays a drone instrument, or regulators. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45812-z Settings: +X+X+X+ 1762: Aberdeen (In G) from Bremner’s Rudiments of Music https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87723589 +X+X+X+ 1762: Bristol (In G minor) from Bremner’s Rudiments of Music https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87723781 +X+X+X+ 1810: Miss Boswell’s Jigg from John Murphy https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_collection_of_Irish_airs_and_jiggs_wit/_Up5WmARde0C?hl=en +X+X+X+ 1733: Hacky Honey from William Dixon’s Manuscript +X+X+X+ FIN Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my First Album on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes or my second album on Bandcamp! https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/pay-the-pipemaker or my third album on Bandcamp! https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at [email protected] letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA