Lady Betty Stanley's Minuet Lord Stanley's Minuet Duchess of Gordon's Minuet Mrs Hamilton's Minuet General Burgoine's Minuet
Scotland was the object of some ethnic
suppression in the eighteenth century, because of upsets such as the Jacobite
rebellion. Nevertheless, awareness of the music of the continent and of
England, of course, was evident in the works of several composers such as
William McGibbon, Charles McLean, David Foulis and, most importantly to us,
Thomas Erskine, the Sixth Earl of Kelly. These composers adopted the prevailing
late baroque/roccoco style that was known elsewhere. With the Act of Union in
1707, composers from Scotland began to assemble collections of folksongs
(discouraged or forbidden by the mainstream British establishment). While
"art music" was felt not to be genuinely Scottish, certain traits can
be heard in the music of the composers mentioned above, such as the
"Scotch Snap" (a short-long juxtaposition of note values such as one
might hear in the word, "never"). David Schrader
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Thomas Erskine
Five Favourite Minuets Play
Recorded on 10/20/2008, uploaded on 10/06/2010
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Five Favourite Minuets Thomas Erskine
Lady Betty Stanley's MinuetLord Stanley's Minuet
Duchess of Gordon's Minuet
Mrs Hamilton's Minuet
General Burgoine's Minuet
Scotland was the object of some ethnic suppression in the eighteenth century, because of upsets such as the Jacobite rebellion. Nevertheless, awareness of the music of the continent and of England, of course, was evident in the works of several composers such as William McGibbon, Charles McLean, David Foulis and, most importantly to us, Thomas Erskine, the Sixth Earl of Kelly. These composers adopted the prevailing late baroque/roccoco style that was known elsewhere. With the Act of Union in 1707, composers from Scotland began to assemble collections of folksongs (discouraged or forbidden by the mainstream British establishment). While "art music" was felt not to be genuinely Scottish, certain traits can be heard in the music of the composers mentioned above, such as the "Scotch Snap" (a short-long juxtaposition of note values such as one might hear in the word, "never"). David Schrader
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