Interestingly (to me at least) classical musicians and critics tend to use
preserving the dance character (of, say, Bach's partitas for solo violin) to
mean not playing too slowly. My experience of playing for dancing (morris,
scottish, rocknroll) tells me it should mean not playing too fast.
c
I'm still bashing away at Peacock, and only recently took note of the
metronome settings in the recent edition, some of which are, to me,
stratospherically fast.
I have never taken note of them so can't comment. What I eventually
took note of was the remark of Thomas Bewick quoted in
in case you didn't spot my mistake
B/c/dgd rather than Bcgd
should read
B/c/dgd rather than Bdgd
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In the original reprint of the Peacock Tunes I did not indicate
metronome markings and I am not sure if I was involved in setting them
for the current reprint. I had felt it was useful to indicate something
for new players not familiar with the idiom and generally erred on the
Hi Matt, et al,
Dick HensoldSt. Paul, MN
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Thanks Richard - I agree with much of this, though I feel it needs to be
the right speed, rather than just speed.
I have played other instruments for various sorts of dance, both
traditional historical, for a long time now, where indeed the dancers
need to be able to rely on the right
