>> Strange from a musician's point of view, because all have four >> 6-bar sections. I've no doubt it makes perfect sense from a dancing >> p.o.v. - my woeful ignorance of dancing hampers me once again! > Actually, Foss's dance "Cairn Edward", for which these tunes were set, > is almost unique in SCD; I know of just one other, "Tweedside", in > RSCDS Book 19, which is built on 6 bar phrases (it uses 3/4 tunes, > and a modified waltz step). It _does_ make sense when you try it out - > an example of Foss's considerable insight and inventiveness. The > trouble is, there seem to be essentially no other tunes in this style
Try "The Duck of Monmoth's Jigg" in my Dalkeith site, though it's 6/8: <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/dalkeith/Dalkeith.htm> Some of the dances called "branle" or "brawl" in the early music/dance world use 6 bars, and that may be one of them. (More often they're in duple metre and may come in very strange lengths, like 4x2 + 13x2). "Simon Brodie" (at least in some versions) is a reel in 6-bar sections. Never did get that one. I wonder if some 8-bar waltz tunes started out as 6-bar tunes and were extended by adding extra-long notes? - I just tried doing the reverse, by trimming the long notes in "Miss Rowan Davies" to make it a 6-bar tune, and it almost works. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
