[SCA-Dance] SCAd-Dance Delving into the Trihory

David Learmonth david.a.learmonth at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 20:48:28 EST 2013


My message was too long, with previous messages still in the string.  Here
it is again for the list.

Darius


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:46 PM, David Learmonth <david.a.learmonth at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Thank you Henry!
>
> Yes, that is bringing back memories of some of the thoughts I had when I
> looked at it.
>
> I believe I did look at the french, at least somewhat, but didn't catch
> all of that.
>
> Yeah, that was one theory I had.  That maybe he teaches it initially as
> kicks (pied en l'air), because that is more similar to some of the other
> bransles.
>
> But then he goes on to perhaps teach the "actual" / "correct" version,
> which would just be pointing your heels.
>
> The language was still a bit ambiguous in my mind, but I definitely think
> this is a reasonable proposal of what it was meant to be.
>
>
> Oh, and yes, I skipped about the kick at the end of the double.  But yes,
> agreed.  I had worked it out before.
>
> Here is my interpretation that I had offered for the Terp Book version:
>
> Double L, end w/kick L; Spring L, feet together, on toes point heels RLR
>
> (and you actually raise / kick the left foot on the last pointing of the
> heels to the right)
>
>
> So yes, beat by beat, you seem to step left, bring your right together,
> step left again, and then kick left, for those first 4 beats.  Which I do a
> sort of kicking my left foot forward, with my right foot coming into place
> from behind.
>
> And then I swing my left foot over as I leap onto it, and then bring my
> right foot down to meet it.  (all in 1 beat, so half a beat each portion)
>
> And then the 3 heel points, with the left foot raising on the last one.
>  (this is in 1.5 beats).  Then followed by a Half Beat Rest.
>
> And that is all I do, in 7 counts.  But I have seen some musicians play a
> longer rest at the end, extending it to a more "normal" bar length.
>
> Took me a while to figure out what they meant!  I had to step through beat
> by beat.  And I think I did look at the US library of congress image online.
>
> http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/musdibib:@field(NUMBER+@band(musdi+219))
>
> Starts on Page 81.
>
> Darius
>
>


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