Just in case anyone might think I'm the clever so-and-so who came up
with those complex jig patterns quoted in a previous submission, I have
to say I lifted them from Stewart Hardy's book "Secrets of Jigs"
([1]mu...@kirkhousepublishing.com) an excellent publication with highly
detailed and accurate instructional CD. The illustrations Stewart chose
for the timings were, however, taken from a tune he wrote for me, "Dr
Robb's Dancing Feet". He claims that I use some of those
ratios intuitively in my playing. I thank him for the tune and his
analysis of traditional styles. The book is, naturally, written from a
fiddling perspective but there's quite a lot there for pipers to take
on board too.
As aye
Anthony
--- On Wed, 4/11/09, gibbonssoi...@aol.com <gibbonssoi...@aol.com>
wrote:
From: gibbonssoi...@aol.com <gibbonssoi...@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: schei greiss
To: anth...@robbpipes.com, david...@pt.lu, nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu,
j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk
Date: Wednesday, 4 November, 2009, 10:42 AM
Maybe we should sort out the more literal dot-readers with more
accurate notation.
Notereader makes Hornpipes sound fairly good in 21/16, with dotted and
undotted quavers alternating.
12/8 is too jiggy, straight quavers have no pulse,
and normal 'dotted 4/4' is lumpier than school custard was.
Stuart's ideas on how jigs sound and should be played are more complex
yet.
A revised edition of the tunebook, Julia??
John
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