A fascinating manuscript – and here’s the guy who listed the contents! Congratulations, and thanks, Tracy!
The Drum of the Crown Forces were very privileged to hear Tracy Macdonnell repeat his London, Ontario, Buttrey Manuscript presentation at Fort York on Saturday. It was a delight to hear.
Tracy is the person responsible for creating a list of all 1,061 tunes in the manuscript. Without that list to work from, this website would not have been created, Eamonn O’Keeffe would not have commented on it and told me about Ross Flowers, Drum Major of the Drums of the Crown Forces. Ross would not have taken photos of all the melodies and encouraged me to keep uploading them to this website and the Village Music Project people would not have found the photos and transcribed the entire manuscript !! Now how’s that for serendipity !!
When asked why this manuscript was special, Tracy says, “Simply because it exists ! The sheer number of tunes and that it was…
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Karen McAulay, Musicologist 