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brooklynbanjoboy - Posted - 11/11/2019: 07:58:48
Anyone out there in FHO-land have a recommendation for a good CD of fiddle waltzes?
Swing - Posted - 11/11/2019: 11:40:39
Youtube.....too many waltzes to name, you can extract the waltzes that you like and make your own list and burn it to a CD...
Play Happy
Swing
brooklynbanjoboy - Posted - 11/11/2019: 13:07:30
Thanks, David. Good idea.
Thanks, Doug - appreciate the recommendation.
Regards,
Lew Stern
brooklynbanjoboy - Posted - 11/12/2019: 06:45:19
I should have remembered that one! Thanks, Carl. Hope all is well with you.
Lew
Old Scratch - Posted - 11/12/2019: 11:44:58
Btw, I used to have older people distinguishing between 'Old Time' and 'Modern' waltzes, and requesting specifically one or the other (usually Modern). As I understood it, Old Time waltzes are more up-tempo and 'peppier'; Modern waltzes slower and more relaxed. Of course, a lot could probably fit either category, depending how they're played.
By way of example, in the Canadian context, Black Velvet Waltz would be Old Time; Poor Girl's Waltz, Modern.
Edited by - Old Scratch on 11/12/2019 11:46:17
brooklynbanjoboy - Posted - 11/12/2019: 16:02:55
Hey, Old Scratch. Interesting point.
Old Scratch - Posted - 11/12/2019: 21:11:17
@brooklynbanjoboy After I wrote that, I looked up Don Messer's recordings of the two waltzes - and listening to one right after the other, I was surprised to find that the tempo is identical in the two. Still, Poor Girl's Waltz has a more relaxed feel. The two waltzes would have been composed in the same general era, and both would be considered part of the 'Old Time' repertoire - but within that repertoire, one is an 'Old Time' waltz, and the other is 'Modern' - to my understanding, anyway.
Black Velvet
Poor Girl's
'Mezzo-Soprano clef' 17 hrs
'Glory in the Meeting House' 2 days
