Re: June Tabor on Mike Harding R2

"David Kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> All references June made were
> to Child, but she didn't adhere to Child words and freely Southernised
> northern English or Scots words, even to the extent of losing principal
> rhymes. I can well understand changing the Scots 'toom' to the English
> 'empty' in Bonny James (sic) Campbell - no-one understands 'toom' now -
> but I would think most folk can understand 'dee' for 'die', even
> Americans :-) June also mentioned Bronson tunes, but again, the tunes
> used were much changed especially in range and modality, minor-ising
> originally major or pentatonic stuff and removing the 'drop tonic'
> temporary key shifts in two of the songs which really make them what
> they are. Interesting, very clearly sung, but oddly flattened down.

Isn't the whole point about traditional music that there is no definitive
version of either words or tune?  Presumably June is just as entitled to
change these as traditional singers have throughout the centuries.  You may
or may not like the result, but you can't say any one version is any more
"authentic" than any other.

Steve