>
> Depending on the specific hornpipe, the ratio of a hornpipe's small
> notes can range from 3:2 to 3:1. A 2:1 ratio is the most common, of
> course, which is why some people say that hornpipes should be written
> in 12/8 or 12/16 rather than 4/4. It could be useful if a midi
> generator could be told the actual ratio to get the different kinds
> of hornpipe. And, of course, hornpipes are regularly played as reels.
..........and the English stage hornpipe of the 18th
century was completely undotted anyway.
The Village Music Project has a problem with the R: field.
As certain hornpipe tunes will be played (by some software
packages) dotted when they are not, the only alternative
is to leave the R: field blank. This is silly if the tune
is called XXX Hornpipe, and also it gives us a database
search problem farther down the line if we want to use R:
as a tune type field.
Johnny Adams -
The Village Music Project
@ The Institute of Social Research
University of Salford, Manchester, UK
http://www.salford.ac.uk/media/research/vmpaims.htm
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