Probably not a typo. The 'n-bar' description seems to apply indiscriminately to tunes of total length n bars, and tunes with strains that long. I'd call Peacock's Bonny Pit Laddie a 6-bar jig; but a tune like The Hexham Quadrille, with 3 eight bar strains repeated, is often called a 48-bar jig. This usage makes sense when playing for dancing, as the dance might need 48 bars of music, say. As abstract music, the strain length might be what the player cares about.
A lot of old reels are 4 bar ones in the former sense - but I can't think of any fitting the latter usage - perhaps we should have a new composition class with a suitably lavish prize next month? John -----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Richard York Sent: 08 September 2010 12:37 To: julia....@nspipes.co.uk; NSP group Subject: [NSP] Re: Competitions It seems mean of me to pick up typos, Julia, 'cos I certianly maek planty, but I do like the idea of a 4 bar reel. Perhaps this should be a special class of its own in the said competitions. :) Richard. On 08/09/2010 11:05, Julia Say wrote: 1. Recently I have been playing through the winning compositions printed in the NPS Magazine. (Many are delightful!) I notice that most are 16-bar tunes. Is this considered to be the ideal length? This is one of the common "dance tune" lengths in this area. There are also 4-ba r reels, 48 bar jigs......etc etc -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
