strathspey@strathspey.org:43961

Richard Goss

RE: Scottish dancing

Jan. 30, 2006, 10:03 p.m. (Message 43961, in reply to message 43948)

Which of course is part of my point. At the time of the Gows and
others, the appeal of music from Scotland was already common
throughout Britain, e.g. no border between Scottish and English music
or dance. Point being that many tunes, that we know and document as
Scottish are used for dances in England, Moneymusk for instance (same
figures, almost, but a bit faster then we are used to - last time I
saw it as an English dance they used the "rant step", at a tempo about
half way between the RSCDS strathspey RSCDS reel step..