Chords for I Love My Love In Secret - Scottish Lute Music - Rob MacKillop

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_ _ _ Hi, Rob MacKillop here.
I'm going to talk a wee bit about I Love My Loving Secret from
the Balcarres Lute Manuscript _ from Fife and Edinburgh, _ _ late 17th century, early 18th century.
This is a beautiful piece and I want to focus on the bass line because how we harmonise
_ an old Scottish melody is still argued about today. _ _ _
_ _ The transcriber _ _ _ of _ _ this manuscript,
Balcarres, gives us two ways.
One is to look at it in the old modal way, using the Mixolydian
mode, and the other one is to, his first variation uses a more modern _ _ _ harmonic, major-minor _ harmony.
_ Tonic-dominant relationship.
So let's have a wee look at that.
The _ note, we're in the key of D, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ and the note we're going to harmonise [D] is E. _
_ _ _ _ In the old Mixolydian mode, [F] which is this for D,
[C] D, _ _
[D] _ [E] F sharp, _ _ [Fm] _
[Gm] A, _ [G] _ B, _ [C] C.
_ _ [G] _ D, not C sharp, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ giving us that beautiful C natural.
And that's what he puts
in the bass, where we, for that E [Bb] note, _ we get that harmony.
_ Whereas in his first variation,
we [Bm] get a C sharp, _ _ [G] which is the dominant chord of A major. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] Tonic, _
[G] _ _ _ but in the old [C] style, _ D,
[Gm] _ _ _ _ low C natural.
It's very beautiful.
_ I've added a couple of variations and I've tried to keep
_ [N] the modal style for the first variation _ and the more modern style for the second variation. _ _ _
These
arguments are still going on today, how we harmonise Scottish melodies.
I don't think
there's any one way. _
So, different options.
_ _ This shows us that it was still a problem,
way back in the 17th century, or a question.
I don't know if a problem is a word, but a question. _ _
_ _ And that aside, try and enjoy the piece.
It's very beautiful.
I hope I [G] play it well.
_ I love my love _ _ _ _ _ _
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