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THE 17TH CENTURY (social climate (complex situation (reformation (1560 - …
THE 17TH CENTURY
social climate
Porter - beginning of distinctive musical identity
complex situation
music survived
fairly diverse music culture survived & flourished
revolution
reformation
1560 - broke with papacy
instrumental music banned during worship
psalms
many examples of music/dancing discouraged
rejection of high culture
unemployment
groundwork for following years
'bleak period' ignores rich sources
challenge overarching narrative
bawdiness
Stell - examination
after restoration of monarchy 1660
removal of puritan morality
licentious plays & songs
much lost 18th/19th centuries
propriety
song titles
how widespread?
Stell - proportion not especially high, c.f. England
development of songs in opposition to puritan values?
middle class
secular music still flourished
upper/middle class
Farmer - reflected art from other climes
england/france
in countryside trad music more acceptable but still losing hold
no attempt made to curb
sources
Stell - 44 known sources from 17th century
domesticated manuscripts
reflect compiler's taste
educated, literate, upper/middle class
Robert Edwards - Music Commonplace Book
panmure house in angus
voice, keyboard, cittern
treatises on music
poetry
skene manuscript
John Skene/William Skene
music written for mandore
tablature
played by young women
contents
ports
music for listening rather than dancing
songs
shared repertoire
mix of oral/literate transmission
still known today
information on instruments played
wider musical culture
'popular' flair
Farmer - some possibly composed by 'people' first?
lower classes
Pate Birnie
itinerant fiddler
kinghorn
busking on ferries
still contributed to community after death
Allan Ramsay - elegy
portrait of birnie
represented figure of fun
sources
combination
fascinating figure
connection to social milieu
Gaidhealtachd
culturally distinct from lowland scotland
increases 18th century
decline of harp 17th century
loss of patronage
repercussions - flight of the earls
important time for piping families
maccrimmons
macarthurs