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
: 12 July 2011 20:19
To: Anthony Robb
Cc: Dartmouth NPS
Subject: [NSP] Re: Rants
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
Why has this rant thread gone so quiet all last week?
What makes a tune sound like a rant, rather than a reel or hornpipe?
If I take a (4 in a bar) hornpipe without triplets, speed it up a bit, but not
as much as a reel,
smooth out the dotting a bit, and emphasise the odd beats at the expense of
On 11 Jul 2011, at 13:05, Gibbons, John wrote:
Are there any essential stylistic features that this attempt at a description
misses?
Wiktionary helpfully gives:
From Dutch ranten, randen (“talk nonsense, rave”).
Can anybody help to clarify the difference between a Rant and a Rave?
Or at
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Subject: [NSP] Re: Rants again
.and from FARNE
http://www.folknortheast.com/learn/social-dance/dance-technique
The single most striking factor which sets Northumbrian traditional dance aside
from those traditional dances known in Southern England, Scotland and other
parts
Anthony
--- On Mon, 11/7/11, Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk wrote:
From: Gibbons, John j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk
Subject: [NSP] Re: Rants again
To: NSP group nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Monday, 11 July, 2011, 13:05
Why has this rant thread gone so quiet all last
On 11 Jul 2011, Francis Wood wrote:
Wiktionary helpfully gives:
From Dutch ranten, randen (talk nonsense, rave).
Well, there you are then. Some might say that covers many posts!
Can anybody help to clarify the difference between a Rant and a Rave?
PA and flashing lights? E?
Or at
Having danced for years, and played for dancing (albeit in California)
perhaps I can help.
First, you do need to see the rant step to understand it. That said,
the easiest way to learn the step is to do it to the rhythm Potato
chips, potato chips. Yes, I know you call them
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Sent: 11 July 2011 13:46
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Subject: [NSP] Re: Rants again
Unencumbered as I am by knowledge, experience or understanding of dance
steps, I too have asked
As just a side bar to this duscussion of ranting: an interesting thing
happened to me yesterday. I was at the Skagit Valley Highland Games to
participate in a SSP and Border pipe talent show for lack of a better
term. Kat Eggleston and I played a set of Lowland tunes in a guitar/BP
the page got lost.
He retained syncopation in similar positions in some hornpipes.
John
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Subject: [NSP] Re: Rants again
Unencumbered as I
On Mon, 11/7/11, cal...@aol.com cal...@aol.com wrote:
All dancers really need is a strong down beat...Never really had a
dancer say, I can't dance this dance to that tune.
Hello Alec
I think the point here is not what can be danced to such and such a
tune but which style of
On 11 Jul 2011, at 20:06, Dave S wrote:
Etymology+Origin of rant (verb)
1598, from Du. randten talk foolishly, rave, of unknown origin
(cf.
Ger. rantzen to frolic, spring about). The noun is first
attested
1649, from the verb. Ranters antinomian sect which
julia@nspipes.co.uk wrote:
Like Chris, I am concerned at some of the material now being
preferred by players. There is a difference between playing music on
the Northumbrian smallpipes and Northumbrian piping, and the
latter must not get swamped by the former or the tradition will be
It would be too obvious say the same about Border pipes, so I'd better not..
On 1/5/09, Chris Ormston ch...@chrisormston.com wrote:
I'm told that only recently Tommy Breckons made a similar comment about NSP!
I am reminded of a article written by Pat McNulty, the Glasgow based
uilleann piper,
I can't think of a single word that will
do but no doubt some one will.
Untunable? Unbareable?
c
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I didn't understand what AR meant with his tomato, either - if he
meant un unstressed downbeat (to-) then I'm mystified, as Rants have a
stress on the downbeat in my experience. The stress of the word tomato
is on the -ma-, whether you say tomaato or tomayto.
Mason's Apron is Scottish, the
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