Episode 20. Double-Think.
Sunday, 27th May 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
John Purser uncovers hidden meanings, secret agendas and hypocrisy in Scottish music from the 17th century on, taking in the notorious charms of philandering minister Dainty Davie, a bitter political riddle, an apparently innocent song which only reveals its true lewdness when you sing all the parts at once, and some very silly alternative words for the psalms.
Episode Playlist
- Anon 17c (David Melvill Ane buke of roundels): As I me walk’d
Cappella Nova/Alan Tavener
BBC recording - Anon (Robert Tait Music Book): There was a pretty maid
David McGuinness, Julian Corrie, John Purser, voices
BBC recording - Trad (Scottish Psalter) : Psalm 43 vv-3-5 (Martyrs) O send thy light forth
Dunfermline Abbey Choir, conducted by Andrew Armstrong
CASSETTE Scottish Psalms and Paraphrases
Scotsoun SSC 059 - Trad (Scottish Psalter): Dunfermline
Dorothy Wilson, carillon of Dunfermline Abbey
CASSETTE Scottish Psalms and Paraphrases
Scotsoun SSC 059 - Words - from Millar Patrick, Four Centuries of Scottish Psalmody (London: OUP, 1949)
Tune - Andrew Thomson: Rose Terrace, in Sacred Harmony Part 1, for the use of St George’s Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1820) Choir/David McGuinness
BBC recording - Words - from Millar Patrick, Four Centuries of Scottish Psalmody (London: OUP, 1949)
Tune - Hugh Wilson (1766-1824): Martyrdom Greg Lawson, Mark Summers, David McGuinness, voices
BBC recording - Words - from Millar Patrick, Four Centuries of Scottish Psalmody (London: OUP, 1949)
Tune - Stephens, in John Knott, Sacred Harmony (Aberdeen, 1814)
Paul Rendall, Greg Lawson, Mark Summers, David McGuinness, voices
BBC recording - Trad - Dainty Davy
Jean Redpath
LP Laddie Lie Near Me
Elektra EKL 274 - Trad (Scottish Psalter): Dundee - Psalm 103 vv.1&2
Norman McLeod & Group
CD on Scottish Tradition 6 Gaelic Psalms from Lewis
Greentrax CDTRAX 9006 - Anon: Whip my towdie
Coronach
CD Whip My Towdie
CMF 005 - Trad arr. Rideout - Corn Bunting
Bonnie Rideout
BBC recording
