{"id":1036,"date":"2020-06-24T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T20:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2025-05-27T09:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:16:23","slug":"more-like-scottish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/more-like-scottish\/","title":{"rendered":"More Like Scottish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are back to music that is attempting to depict Scotland &#8211; and I have to say that Malcolm Arnold in these dances does a rather more recognisable depiction than the Mendelssohn we heard in the Mendelssohn on Monday \ud83d\ude03 especially in the first two movements &#8211; even if Arnold seems to sound &#8220;tongue-in-cheek&#8221; as he often did. Great fun to play.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In this quite old recording we get the added benefit of the composer conducting his own work.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wHnBibfWu2Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malcolm Arnold : Scottish Dances<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wHnBibfWu2Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em> :<\/p>\n<p><strong>Howard J Evans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Love these!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Dickens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ray Farr\u2019s arrangement for band is excellent<\/p>\n<p><strong>George R McConnell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly the version most prevalent on YouTube seems to be the one for Wind Band &#8211; although I did notice the Grimethorpe version of the Brass Band arrangement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are back to music that is attempting to depict Scotland &#8211; and I have to say that Malcolm Arnold in these dances does a rather more recognisable depiction than the Mendelssohn we heard in the Mendelssohn on Monday \ud83d\ude03 especially in the first two movements &#8211; even if Arnold seems to sound &#8220;tongue-in-cheek&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/more-like-scottish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Like Scottish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-orchestral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}