Anselm writes: | John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > (And the tune for The Yellow Haired Laddie | > is actually labelled "minuet" rather than "waltz", though I'd predict | > that the Renaissance Dance crowd would object that the tune isn't a | > minuet at all. ;-) | | It's not a waltz, either. When that tune was new the waltz hadn't been | invented yet.
True. But then, people routinely play a lot of 17th-century tunes as waltzes. Hereabouts, several of O'Carolan's tunes are considered waltzes by a lot of the Contra and SCD gang. The Yellow Haired Laddie tune does work for a waltz, while it doesn't really fit a minuet very well. The RSCDS booklet treats it as a waltz-time tune, despite their labelling it as a "minuet". The really curious one of the dances I listed is Tweedside, which has 6-bar phrases. The two tunes in the RSCDS booklet have different phrasing. The first tune has parts made up of two 3-bar phrases, while the second has three two-bar phrases. There are a very small number of RSCDS dances that have phrase lengths other than 8 bars. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
