Oct. 4, 2001, 3:47 p.m. (Message 27756)
Anselm wrote: >I would like to >suggest that for a real challenge, 7-bar or 9-bar phrases might be more >interesting. Try English country dancing for a change; no shortage of odd-length phrases in the older dances. Surprisingly enough, the 7, 11 or 13-bar phrases shock us less then we might have expected. Although we now limit ourselves to 8-bar phrases most of the time, Baroque music had a far greater variety. have we been dumbing down? Martin, in Grenoble, France. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/scots.in.france/scd.htm (dance groups, events, some new dances ...)