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Modes or Tastes and William Dixon – again. What’s in a word?

2nd February 201718th February 2020 Peter CookeLowland Bagpipes, Scotland3 Comments on Modes or Tastes and William Dixon – again. What’s in a word?

With them rose A forest huge of spears; and thronging helms Appear’d and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable: anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders; such as rais’d To…

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William Dixon’s tunes re-visited – the problem of key signatures.

30th July 201615th February 2020 Peter CookeLowland Bagpipes, Scotland5 Comments on William Dixon’s tunes re-visited – the problem of key signatures.

This is an updated  version of the brief article published in the December 2016 issue of Common Stock, the journal of the Lowland and Border Pipers’ Society.  Here the article has been expanded by the inclusion of more music notations…

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