[SCA-Dance] Rant: I want beats. I wants steps. I don't want measures.

Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.com
Sun Feb 8 18:57:36 EST 2015


On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 02:34:54PM -0600, Charlene C wrote:
> I think part of the frustration when looking at dance tabulations is
> they're often divorced of the music and have no indication of what time
> signature the music is in. Thus, when told to do a double in "2 measures /
> bars" the dancer doesn't know if it's a 4-count double or a 6-count double.

Yes, it's definitely the case that the tabulation should mention the
time signature -- obvious for ECD, not so obvious for most other genres.

-- Gregory



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