Re: compound time signature with non duple denominator

[David Wright]

On Fri 04 Nov 2016 at 10:55:45 (+0100), Hans Åberg wrote:
> On 4 Nov 2016, at 03:21, David Wright <address@hidden> wrote:

(in a different timezone)

> > My own experience of dancing is mainly
> > in the Scottish Country Dancing tradition, where such rhythmic
> > irregularities would be of no help at all. In a tradition where
> > 8-bar phrases rule, a dance like The Wee Cooper of Fife is highly
> > irregular, having four 10-bar phrases.
> 
> I have encountered Mairi's Wedding, 8x40 reel:
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairi%27s_Wedding

Mairi's Wedding is completely regular; it has five 8-bar
sections, which happens to sum to 40:

. Turn R and cast, turn L;
. ½reel of 4 with 1st corners, then with 2nd;
. then 3rd, then 4th;
. Reels of 3 across;
. 6-hands round and back.

OTOH Foss had to add an extra bit to each normal 8-bar figure to use
up the extra two bars in the tune of The Wee Cooper of Fife (8x40 jig).
This is most obvious in bars 11–20. Rights and lefts (cross R, cross L,
cross R, cross L) takes eight bars; in this dance you cross R an
extra time.

(BTW the 8x has nothing to do with this; it just indicates that each
couple in the 4-couple set will dance the dance in top place, then
"repeat, having passed a couple" in standard parlance, ie start again
in second place.)

[snip]
> > No, in the sense that the OP didn't ask for any subdivisions so none
> > were given in my response, see
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-11/msg00074.html
> 
> But there is no tempo given, and how strong is the accent of the 1 relative 
> that of the 3 before it?

Impossible for me to say.

Cheers,
David.

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