The little Spree - the ground analysis of a ceol mòr piece by means of Canntaireachd
Analysis of the Groud of the Little Spree - An Daorach bheag V-Laine-Michaud CC. BY-NC-ND This piece has various sources, but for the sake of this presentation which aims at showing the superiority of the Canntaireachd system in terms of analysis the structural characteristics of a piece, we will center this study around the ground as set in the Angus MacKay collection (c.1830) found here: https://www.ceolsean.net/docs/AM%20titles/The%20Little%20Spree%20(You%20are%20Drunk%20You%27ve%20drank%20a%20quart).pdf The setting is made with A as the tonic of the chanter and and 2/4 time signature in which sixteenth note + dotted eighth note is the base rhythmic unity. It has been amply convered in many works that the classical musical notation of rhythm is not sufficient to write the complex sanction system of the Ceol Mòr and here is a good exemple of that; this presentation aims at showing that converting this score into the syllabic system of Canntaireachd as used in the Netherlor...