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Jim Healy

3 X quicktime dances and music

Feb. 14, 2005, 12:29 a.m. (Message 40654, in reply to message 40613)

Greetings!

Can I just beg to differ with Robb's assertion that "The Dancing Master" is 
a 1 x 96 bar dance. I have just come in from a rehearsal of the Dundee 
Branch team where we spent a considerable amount of the evening analysing 
this dance with the dancers and musician. It _is_ a 96 bar dance but the 
structure is a 32 bar figure with 1st and 3rd couple leading, that figure is 
repeated with 2nd and 4th couple leading. This figure and repetition are 
followed by a separate 32 bar figure. The music, as defined by John D, 
consists of two tunes. These are played as 32 bars of "The Dancingmaster", 
these are repeated and are then followed by 32 bars of  "A Visit to 
Ireland". George is surely therefore correct that this is indistinguishable 
from the music for a specifically 3 x 32 dance.

If George had just been listing anything he and the band had played that 
added up to 96 bars, I would have expected "Nottingham Lace" to feature 
prominently but that is structured as 4 x 24 'chunks' :) (or, occasionally, 
2 x 48) and is therefore missing from his list altogether.

Jim Healy
Perth, Scotland