Colin wrote:
>>I am glad you enjoyed reading the Journal which is designed to stimulate thought a wee bit more that the >>Newsletter. The article which was less than stimulating and in fact quite innaccurate was the one where Sarah >>Paton commented on the financial running of the NPS and also on 'attitude' at our regular meetings which she >>has not attended so how could she know as applies to her knowledge of the work of our Treasurer. >>Anthony tries to make it easy for young people to grasp ideas of rhythm by vocalising them which works most >>of the time but he got a tomato in the face over the rant rhythm. If I can give the idea of the foot tapping >>rhythm which is the basis of what you are writing about it can be expressed? in cut common as lead >>note,?quaver/ crotchet, crotchet,crotchet, quaver? rest,quaver/ crotchet...etc. However the tunes used may >>not be exactly in that rhythm but would still allow the dancers to tap out the rhythm with their hard shoes. >>A slowish reel would allow the dancers to tap out the rhythm in certain parts of the dance albeit a bit >>faster than in a regular rant Err... yes, exactly. I think that makes things perfectly clear. We can probably drop this topic now. Cheers, Paul Gretton -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
