Seth, has anyone mentioned Noah Van Nordstrom's recent publication available
from CDSS? Sorry if it's already been mentioned. This thread is getting a lot
of replies!
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On Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 11:53:42 AM EDT, Katherine Kitching via
Contra Callers <[email protected]> wrote:
I think Rich's point about the tempo signals is worth highlighting!!
Before I realized that I needed to specifically discuss this with the band in
advance, I had a few mishaps where my enthusiastic raising-and-re-raising of my
hands was taken to mean that I wanted to the band to play LOUDER, and my
calming-lowering-of-my-hands gestures were taken to mean I wanted them to play
quieter :)
And-- Just for anyone else who wasn't in the know, I wrote to Rich and he
explained to me that "piece count" means the number of figures in the dance. I
did not know that :)
Kat K Hfx
Rich Goss Thursday, September 5, 2024 10:02 AM
Just to add a couple of thoughts Katherine triggered. The piece count of a
dance has a bearing on the tempo. Higher the piece count, generally the slower
the tempo and vice versa. Also, I like to make clear up front my signals for
speeding up or slowing down.
Rich
Katherine Kitching via Contra Callers Thursday, September 5, 2024 9:43 AM
Hi John (and everyone), just catching up on the listserv and went to your
"Callers and Music" page--
very helpful info there!
I wish I had found it last year when I was looking for resources for this
caller-and-musician workshop that we did.
In particular, I had searched all over the internet last year for some clue as
to how many times through a typical improper duple contra dance would run, and
had a real hard time finding that info.
I had concluded that with 5 duples in a set (our usual), we might dance through
up to 17 times, which would take about 9 minutes at 117bpm..... so that those
who started at the top would get back to the top.
Do you think that's too long?
I was under the impression that in the US the lines are often longer than 5
duples, and that the convention was to dance long enough to let everyone travel
up and down the line the whole way....so I was thinking that in a seasoned
contra dance group the dance might go on 15 minutes or more?
Very curious about this now!
Kat Kitching in Halifax NS
Sep 4, 2024 3:16:24 PM John Sweeney via Contra Callers
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