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
http://wwwmusicavivacom
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Laurie Griffiths wrote:
Frank asked A rant? Is there actually a dance called that???
(Reminds me of what Shakespeare says about the branle, btw)
And what did Shakespeare say about the branle? (I know that one meaning of
the French verb branler is not polite to mention here)
Twelfth
Frank wrote ... (BTW, I thought everybody in Britain was force fed
Shakespeare during
elemntary school the same way us poor Norwegians are force fed Ibsen!)
Yes, indeed. In an education that was about as far biased towards sciences
as it could be I was nevertheless force-fed Henry IV, Henry V,
No, that was someone else that wrote that. :)
I live in the British Isles. I thought that the whole world knew that we
invented football, the wheel, tennis, language, movement etc.
L.
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From: Frank Nordberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March
Laurie == Laurie Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Laurie Also I was young and pitifully innocent and missed almost
Laurie all of the dirty jokes.
That was my problem; we did read 12th night, but I missed the dirty
jokes. As well as all the stuff about dancing.
--
Laura
This tune is really great !! It's one of my favorite in the celtic
area.
We play it with my folk band.
You can find a cover of it by the famous breton band Tri Yann.
They called it Kerfank 1870. I can't swear it, but I think the
rythm is an An Dro.
The lyrics they use is
Général, ma Général
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
This one is the signature tune of the Edinburgh Shetland Fiddlers
They think it's Norwegian but nobody can remember where they got
it from Ideas?
X:1
T:The Hoy Song
Z:Jack Campin 2002
S:Edinburgh Shetland Fiddlers
M:2/4
L:1/16
Q:1/4=128
K:A % or do we play it in G? I can't remember
e2ee
This tune is really great !! It's one of my favorite in the celtic
area We play it with my folk band
You can find a cover of it by the famous breton band Tri Yann
They called it Kerfank 1870
As usual there's a web page about it once you know what to look for:
Apologies for dragging up old threads, but I've been away for a while
jhoerr writes:
What does this prove, except that *your* rules are self-defeating and
incomplete? If your rules imply a contradiction where even novice
musicians agree on a single interpretation, don't you think maybe the
Jack Campin writes:
Gilderoy gets around there's probably no other tune in the British
Isles with so many descendants Gilderoy *means* red haired boy
Unless, of course, it dates all the way back to Gilles de Rais, in
which case it means Bluebeard
Cheers,
John Walsh
To
Frank Nordberg writes:
...One of the best known mid-16th C. jigs, Kemp's jig, shows no
resemblance at all to the modern jig, but is a dead ringer for a
rujero. (Concidering the fact that it's named after a famous
actor/dancer/performer, it's probably a set dance anyway.)
It's a Morris
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