Yes and no, Helen.
It appeared as a 6/8 march in NPS 2nd Tune Book (1981) but I've never
heard it played as such. Joe Hutton played it as a steady hornpipe and
Robin Dunn arranged it in that form as a duet to play with Neil Smith
on recorder and mandolin. This arrangement was published (as a dotted
hornpipe) in the NPS Duet Book in 1985.
Hope this explains the confusion.
While I'm on, it is a chuckling thought to imagine shepherds with their
music stands. (Barry's recent posting). I was at Hannah Hutton's last
week and she said that Joe didn't acquire one until the early 90s when
he started giving formal classes and how he was the exception up north
for having some facility with dots. He did of course learn from G.G.
Armstrong who did use dots but that was "out west" in the county.
As for the likes of Will Atkinson, Willy Taylor, Archie Bertram, Jimmy
Little, Dud Taylor, George Drummond and their predecessors they didn't
possess music stands nor indeed did they jot down dots as memory aids.
For them written notation was as alien as callers at their dances.
There were, of course, people like Sophy Ball's mum (among others) who
visited and notated some of their tunes but they themselves never
referred to dots. When Willie T. had a new tune to share he'd either
play it himself or get his well-used cassette player out to pass it on.
Anthony
--- On Tue, 8/6/10, helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz
<helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
From: helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz <helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz>
Subject: [NSP] Re: Parnell's March
To: "John Dally" <dir...@gmail.com>
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Tuesday, 8 June, 2010, 1:16
I'm missing something here! Isn't it a march?
Helen Capes
Quoting John Dally <[1]dir...@gmail.com>:
> "Parnell's March" NPS Bk 2, p.3: it's written out as a jig, but isn't
> it really a hornpipe?
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