Why has this rant thread gone so quiet all last week?
What makes a tune sound like a rant, rather than a reel or hornpipe?
If I take a (4 in a bar) hornpipe without triplets, speed it up a bit, but not
as much as a reel,
smooth out the dotting a bit, and emphasise the odd beats at the expense of
On 11 Jul 2011, at 13:05, Gibbons, John wrote:
Are there any essential stylistic features that this attempt at a description
misses?
Wiktionary helpfully gives:
From Dutch ranten, randen (“talk nonsense, rave”).
Can anybody help to clarify the difference between a Rant and a Rave?
Or at
Tim has asked the right question -
What is the right way of playing a tune,
so that it is rantable by a dancer?
Can you clarify this, Anthony?
John
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Hello John
I think that's fairly close.
It is possible to do rants steps to reels, polkas and even jigs but in
the Northumbrian sense it is a subtle up-tempo near hornpipe that
really does help you to lift your feet off the ground and
move rhythmically around the floor for long
On 11 Jul 2011, Francis Wood wrote:
Wiktionary helpfully gives:
From Dutch ranten, randen (talk nonsense, rave).
Well, there you are then. Some might say that covers many posts!
Can anybody help to clarify the difference between a Rant and a Rave?
PA and flashing lights? E?
Or at
Having danced for years, and played for dancing (albeit in California)
perhaps I can help.
First, you do need to see the rant step to understand it. That said,
the easiest way to learn the step is to do it to the rhythm Potato
chips, potato chips. Yes, I know you call them
rant. Old Eng. 17th-cent. dance of the jig variety. It originated in Scotland
and N. England. Four examples occur in Playford's The Dancing Master (1657 and
1665 revisions).
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996
Any advance on Playford?
Smith's New Rant (What happened to the old one?)
As just a side bar to this duscussion of ranting: an interesting thing
happened to me yesterday. I was at the Skagit Valley Highland Games to
participate in a SSP and Border pipe talent show for lack of a better
term. Kat Eggleston and I played a set of Lowland tunes in a guitar/BP
Etymology+Origin of rant (verb)
1598, from Du. randten talk foolishly, rave, of unknown origin (cf.
Ger. rantzen to frolic, spring about). The noun is first attested
1649, from the verb. Ranters antinomian sect which arose in England
c.1645 is attested from 1651; applied 1823 to early
On Mon, 11/7/11, cal...@aol.com cal...@aol.com wrote:
All dancers really need is a strong down beat...Never really had a
dancer say, I can't dance this dance to that tune.
Hello Alec
I think the point here is not what can be danced to such and such a
tune but which style of
On 11 Jul 2011, at 20:06, Dave S wrote:
Etymology+Origin of rant (verb)
1598, from Du. randten talk foolishly, rave, of unknown origin
(cf.
Ger. rantzen to frolic, spring about). The noun is first
attested
1649, from the verb. Ranters antinomian sect which
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