strathspey@strathspey.org:45391

GOSS9@telefonica.net

Re: Reels and Hornpipes

May 26, 2006, 2:58 p.m. (Message 45391, in reply to message 45385)

Your comment works for me when a reel has 4 or 8 notes of equal value, 
on a 4 count only the one has the natural stress of the music, with 234 
more equal then if the pattern is 
..................
4|1  23...4|1.. putting a stronger relative emphasis on count 3 o4 4 
or 5 of 8.

Using the American fractional system, a typical hornpipe starts in 2/4 
time states with 
a 16th note on the upbeat (4th note of previous bar), followed by a 
dotted 8th note, on the down beat, this pattern repeated with a 16th 
note for the second note, and a dotted 8th for the third

A reel in 2/4 would simply start with an 8th note on count 4 of the 
previous bar, followed by 8th notes on counts 1 2 3 of the next.

The dancing result is more iregular in that the movements are of equal 
length as ...
hop|step-close-step, where as if one was actually  following all the 
notes in a hornpipe rhythm, one gets hop|step  close-step, sort of what 
one sees with the slip step.