Hello Matt
Firstly, many thanks to you and other kind bods for letting me know
the thing got through and to Wayne for explaining the problem.
I have to stress it isn't me but rather the etymologists at the OED who
are suggesting that rant in terms of dance & music has a possible
derivation from a 16th century dance. This does seem, perhaps, more
plausible than other possibilities so far on offer.
What I'm taken with is the idea of the gliding action - I've been to
dances in Whittingham, Glanton, Low Barton, Bolton,
Netherton, Wooler.....and haven't seen the old dancers 'stomp' a rant.
I'm wondering if the gliding courant was akin to that other celebrated
gliding step the pas de bas (both in triple time). If so, a courrant
danced to a slow Shields Hornpipe might have evolved into a rant by
upping the tempo a tad.
This would explain how Shield's Hornpipe became known as the Morpeth
Rant and why the courrant had '... hath twise so much in a straine, as
the English country daunce'.
Who knows? I'm merely throwing my thoughts into the pot.
This is, for me at least, a fascinating topic but one which my
limited experience/knowledge does not equip me well for researching.
Undoubtedly there will be unanswerable questions but people like your
goodself might offer more accurate/likely ideas.
Cheers
Anthony
--- On Tue, 12/7/11, Matt Seattle <theborderpi...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
From: Matt Seattle <theborderpi...@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [NSP] Rants
To: "Anthony Robb" <anth...@robbpipes.com>
Cc: "Dartmouth NPS" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Tuesday, 12 July, 2011, 20:19
Yes it got through but with some strange text added (EURYEN every so
often).
Interesting references Anthony. Do I take it you are identifying the
Rant with the Courant(e)? Interesting how one can find diverging
etymologies which converge strangely.
Cheers
Matt
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