Yes and no, Helen. It appeared as a 6/8 march in NPS 2nd Tune Book (1981) but I've never heard it played as such. Joe Hutton played it as a steady hornpipe and Robin Dunn arranged it in that form as a duet to play with Neil Smith on recorder and mandolin. This arrangement was published (as a dotted hornpipe) in the NPS Duet Book in 1985. Hope this explains the confusion. While I'm on, it is a chuckling thought to imagine shepherds with their music stands. (Barry's recent posting). I was at Hannah Hutton's last week and she said that Joe didn't acquire one until the early 90s when he started giving formal classes and how he was the exception up north for having some facility with dots. He did of course learn from G.G. Armstrong who did use dots but that was "out west" in the county. As for the likes of Will Atkinson, Willy Taylor, Archie Bertram, Jimmy Little, Dud Taylor, George Drummond and their predecessors they didn't possess music stands nor indeed did they jot down dots as memory aids. For them written notation was as alien as callers at their dances. There were, of course, people like Sophy Ball's mum (among others) who visited and notated some of their tunes but they themselves never referred to dots. When Willie T. had a new tune to share he'd either play it himself or get his well-used cassette player out to pass it on. Anthony --- On Tue, 8/6/10, helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz <helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
From: helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz <helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz> Subject: [NSP] Re: Parnell's March To: "John Dally" <dir...@gmail.com> Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Tuesday, 8 June, 2010, 1:16 I'm missing something here! Isn't it a march? Helen Capes Quoting John Dally <[1]dir...@gmail.com>: > "Parnell's March" NPS Bk 2, p.3: it's written out as a jig, but isn't > it really a hornpipe? > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. http://uk.mc5.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dir...@gmail.com 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html