Richard Robinson wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, John Chambers wrote:
The word hornpipe does exist primarily as a dance term,
I think it has also been used for an instrument name (just to confuse
things) - unsurprisingly enough I have a vague memory of bumping into it
somewhere (but I can't
Laurie Griffiths wrote:
Yeah There are some old music history books that claimed that the
Irish got the jig from the Italian tarantella The explanation for
this seems to have been that the historians didn't believe that
anyone in the British Isles had the brains to
John Chambers wrote (about shottish):
the constant footwork of: step-step-step-hop, step-step-step-hop,
step-hop-step-hop, step-hop-step-hop
Hmmm
Can anybody tell the difference between a shottish and a Norwegian
reinlender then?
Frank
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To
, 2002 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [abcusers] Re: OT: hornpipes
Laurie Griffiths wrote:
Yeah. There are some old music history books that claimed that the
Irish got the jig from the Italian tarantella. The explanation for
this seems to have been that the historians didn't believe
John Chambers wrote:
Frank asks:
| Can anybody tell the difference between a shottish and a Norwegian
| reinlender then?
Yeah - They're spelled differently
(That's the only difference that I can see)
Richard Robinson wrote:
I wouldn't put it past the Norwegians to have a
Joe Mc Cool said -
I was told once that Hornpipes came originally from France
And I once heard that jigs were invented by the English, reels by the Scots
and the only sort of tune invented by the Irish was the polka
Er? Yeah, right
Bryan
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How does a Schottische (or shottish) dance step go?
L.
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Subject: Re: [abcusers] Re: OT: hornpipes
Bryan commented:
| Joe Mc Cool said -
| I was told once
| How does a Schottische (or shottish) dance step go?
By some coincidence, someone just posted a text description of a
rant step, and I noticed for the first time that it's a variant of
the basic shottish step You can define a shottish as a couple dance
in which the basic step consists
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, John Chambers wrote:
The word hornpipe does exist primarily as a dance term,
I think it has also been used for an instrument name (just to confuse
things) - unsurprisingly enough I have a vague memory of bumping into it
somewhere (but I can't remember where) as a
