> if people > want to do something genuinely Northumbrian they have a choice of the > virtuoso Clough/Peacock repertoire (akin to Ceol Mohr for me) or the > more accessible, but still non-intuitive, Ceol Beag which, for me, is > the dance music of north Northumberland.
Is there no convergence? I asked earlier, and no-one has replied, whether some of the Peacock variation sets might be considered as Rants - though they don't LOOK like rants because of the written note values. For example, Chris Ormston and I play Cuckold as part of a Dashing White Sergeant set after DWS and Jamie Allan, and the dancers don't fall over (well, not much). Cut & Dry Dolly is a different type of tune from Morpeth Rant in many ways but it still has that 3-crotchet signature at the end of phrases if you double the written note values. And what was the Oyster Wife doing? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
