nit: Andrew not Noah On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 1:55 PM Vicki Morrison via Contra Callers < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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! > > New in the store! - Country Dance & Song Society > <https://cdss.org/about/whats-new/new-in-the-store/> > > New in the store! - Country Dance & Song Society > > Anne Campbell > > A Musician’s Guide to Contra Choreography Andrew VanNorstrand, guitarist > and fiddler from the beloved contra dan... > <https://cdss.org/about/whats-new/new-in-the-store/> > > > Vicki Morrison > TCFOOTD > Tallahassee, FL > > > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 > <[email protected]> > 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 > <[email protected]> > <[email protected]>: > > > _______________________________________________ > Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Contra Callers mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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