strathspey@strathspey.org:40622

Volleyballjerry

3 X quicktime dances and music

Feb. 12, 2005, 6:37 p.m. (Message 40622, in reply to message 40613)

George Meikle's list rather confirms my point.  The majority of these has 
been requested only once, perhaps twice, over a thirty-year period!  The one 
glaring exception to that on the list is The Dancing Master, with 133 requests, 
but that's a 96-bar jig in a square set, once through, not a 3 X dance at all.

There seems to be no question that this is an underemployed configuration, 
particularly when compared with 3 X strathspeys.  Yet many have expressed at 
least a passing exposure to this mode, which I seem to have almost entirely (if 
not 100%) managed to avoid (certainly not intentionally!) in a quarter century 
of dancing in Southern California.  I'll have to ask other dancers and 
teachers in our San Gabriel Valley Branch whether they can recall our having done any 
of these, which I perhaps could have forgotten.  But none of the many titles 
mentioned, not even MacPherson's Jig with 22 requests on George's list and 
also mentioned by others, conjures up any personal recollection.

In any case, maybe it's time for us locally (and internationally?) to blow 
the dust off some of these many 3 X quicktime extant dances.  Perhaps you'll 
ultimately turn out to be the catalyst for a movement, Lara!

Robb Quint
Thousand Oaks, CA, USA