Rob Roy

Rod Downey

Message 62439 · 18 Feb 2012 08:12:42 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

sorry meant to send this to everyone.

To: Katharine Hoskyn <xxx.xxx@xxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: RE: Rob Roy (was: Why Have things Changed)

Hi Katherine,

yes indeed Cambridge UK. Last week in the Black Forest where it was
-16 C for 5 days. Cambridge is interesting and has nice dancing with several
groups, the advanced class with an excellent tutor and groups
of people who like scarily complex dances to do in demos.

Leaving (even) wellington mid summer for this weather was a call of duty.

I don't know if the strathspey'ers know this: It is the 100th aniversary
of the birth of someone called Alan Turing; kind of the father of CS.
There are lots of events around the world based on this fact. For
strathspey'ers he was at Bletchley park with Hugh Foss in the second world war.

best

rod

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Katharine Hoskyn wrote:

> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:17:10 +1300
> From: Katharine Hoskyn <xxx.xxx@xxxx.xx.xx>
> To: Xxx.Xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx.xx
> Subject: RE: Rob Roy (was: Why Have things Changed)
>
> How exciting! I assume that is Cambridge, England (and not Cambridge, NZ)
>
> Katharine Hoskyn
> PO Box 240
> Drury
> South Auckland 2247
> Ph: 294-7551
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rod Downey [mailto:Xxx.Xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx.xx]
> Sent: Saturday, 18 February 2012 4:31 a.m.
> To: xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
> Subject: Re: Rob Roy (was: Why Have things Changed)
>
>
>
> sorry you are right. I am away from my stuff at home, in cambridge
> on sabbatical
>
> rod
>
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Becky Sager wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:50:28 GMT
>> From: Becky Sager <xxxxxx3@xxxx.xxx>
>> Reply-To: xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
>> To: xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
>> Subject: Re: Rob Roy (was: Why Have things Changed)
>>
>> It's not Terpsichore - probably Susie Worland/Lyle Ramshaw on The
> Breakdown. I actually prefer it, marginally, to Peter White (which we do
> have in remastered form). Both use The Lovat Scouts as first and last tune,
> but I enjoy The Girl I Left Behind Me as one of the supporting tunes.
> Incidentally, on Susie's earlier recording, The March Hare, she has a good
> 5x40-in-10-bar-phrases track for Wha's at the Window, which uses two tunes
> from Peter White's Wee Cooper o' Fife. I have tried teaching Wha's at the
> Window (John Mitchell) with varying degrees of success - it has mirror reels
> of five and a grand chain for ten, one bar per hand. Great fun.
> Becky
>>
>>
>> Becky Sager
>> Marietta GA USA
>> "Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about
>> learning how to dance in the rain." Vivian Greene
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>> From: Rod Downey <Xxx.Xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx.xx>
>> To: xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
>> Subject: Re: Rob Roy (was: Why Have things Changed)
>> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:59:57 +1300 (NZDT)
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We tend to use the Terpsicore recording of Rob Roy, rather than the one by
>> Peter White. Anyway while we do have both, for most the former is
>> a better suggestion as it is
>> available on a CD.
>>
>>
>> Almost all of the Waverley Fugues have that property that they are all
>> ``partner'' dances where it is possible to help a reasonable partner
>> through, say as opposed to the (fun) Kelpie of Lock Coruisk where you tend
>> to say bye bye to the partner, incidentally a really fun dance if you
>> happen to have 7 couples. (The Border Wizard also by Priddy is also
>> a 7 couple a bit like that but rather harder, because of the 7 couple
>> diagonal half rights and lefts it finishes with.)
>>
>> Of the Waverley Fugues our group liked (variously)
>> Malcolm Misticot (a fugal ``jessie's
>> hornpipe'') and Dugald Dalgetty, and I particularly like Magdalen
>> Murdockson. These dances are really rewarding, as they are intricate and
>> need phrasing as well as track following. The ones from the Glendorrach
>> Sheets are also of interest, and some quite difficult. From there I like
>> Stroangassel and Dundrennan. A canon which is not too difficult and very
>> fun is the dundee city police jig, and the waves on the waimak (``prelude
>> and fugue'') is also quite accessible.
>>
>>
>> It is also really interesting to go back and dance some of the older
>> devisor's
>> dances like Priddy, Foss and Cosh (and Hay) as you soon discover they had
>> some
>> brilliant dances seldom done nowadays, with lots of highly inventive
>> ideas.
>>
>> happy dancing,
>>
>> rod
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