Probably not a typo. The 'n-bar' description seems to apply indiscriminately to
tunes of total length n bars, and tunes with strains that long. I'd call
Peacock's Bonny Pit Laddie a 6-bar jig; but a tune like The Hexham Quadrille,
with 3 eight bar strains repeated, is often called a 48-bar jig.
On 8 Sep 2010, Gibbons, John wrote:
Probably not a typo.
No, John is correct. Not a typo.
There are quite a few of these scattered through society publications (and
elsewhere, but I'll stick to what I know about). As a tune form they are
widespread, but survive alive and played in our area
I grovel.
- and of course you're right.
Yours in deep humility,
Richard.
On 08/09/2010 15:26, Julia Say wrote:
On 8 Sep 2010, Gibbons, John wrote:
Probably not a typo.
No, John is correct. Not a typo.
There are quite a few of these scattered through society publications (and
Sent this to Julia by mistake earlier, instead of to everyone...
-Original Message-
From: Gibbons, John
Sent: 08 September 2010 15:58
To: 'julia@nspipes.co.uk'
Subject: RE: [NSP] Re: 4-bar reels
It should also be noted that a lot of older '8-bar' reels have the structure of
a 4
