Wrote this one on my way back from calling Norfolk.
Slow M'Ocean
Becket
A1 Pass thru to an Ocean Wave (Ps are facing in opposite directions).
Balance forward and back. Swing your SHADOW (who is facing you in the next
wave). (Gents, make the ladies come to you.) End facing across.
A2 Pass thru to an Ocean Wave. Balance F/B -- swing your Partner, who is
facing you in the next wave. End facing your original Ns.
B1 Ladies chain to your N. Ladies allemande R 1.5 (continue to hold Rt
hands)
B2 Ladies pick up your partner, star promenade across with a butterfly
whirl (to the lady's side). Promenade across (to gent's side), with ladies
passing RIGHT shoulders, and curl RIGHT to face the next neighbor, ready to
pass the Ocean.
I can't think of another dance that starts this way -- anybody?
April Blum
Hi everyone,
I'll put on my guitar-player hat here for a minute ... I'm in a band that
likes to see the cards, or at least get a quick summary of the dance,
especially where the balances are. Something like, "There are balances at
the A1 and B1 and the rest of it is smooth," or "There are lots of gypsies
in this dance," is enough information, generally. The rest of it, we can
figure out watching the walkthrough. I like to know if the caller is pro-
or anti-jig. We are a Midwestern band in a strong old-time dance community
and we've run into some anti-jig sentiment. :)
I like callers to tell us if they have anything that's not a contra on
their program - do they plan to call squares (and in that case, do they
need a square tune or can we play a 3-part or otherwise crooked tune), do
they plan to call mixers, how many waltzes do they want in the evening,
etc.
As far as ahead of time goes - if you have a specific dance that calls for
a specific tune, I like to know that before I show up for the gig -- e.g.
Chorus Jig, Levi Jackson Rag, etc.
Admittedly, we're a little weird. Of the four of us, one is a caller (me),
and the remaining three are dating/ married to callers (including my
husband), so I like to think we're a little more caller-aware sometimes. If
for no other reason than they've all heard the various affiliated callers
grumble about the stuff bands do that we hate. :)
Nice discussion - hope this is helpful,
Meg
(Chicago)
Hi all:
For the past few day I've been working on a class for the LaTeX
document typesetting system called `Contra Card.' As you can imagine,
it's used for typesetting calling cards.
The class (and associated documentation) can be found at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/contracard and development happens on GitHub
at https://github.com/SamWhited/contra-card.
If you're technically inclined — or are the kind of person who
appreciates good typesetting — I hope you'll check it out and give me
feedback about what works, what doesn't, what features you'd like to
see, etc.
Thanks,
Sam
--
Sam Whited
pub 4096R/EC2C9934
https://samwhited.com/contact
Scottish country dance videos may help, as in many cases there is no caller, and 40-bar/80-beat dances are much more common than in contra. For example, here's Mairi's Wedding, a forty-bar reel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpLfLurI5s
Or search for Type: Reel or Jig; Bars: 40; Video: checked
on http://my.strathspey.org/dd/search/dance/.
Two provisos - SCDs usually run only eight times through and the music goes rather more slowly than contra (108-16 vs 120-130 bpm).
Yours faithfully,
Edmund Croft,
Cambridge, UK.
Jonathan King wrote:
> I'm looking for an online tune for practicing calling "Major Hey" - it has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). I'm looking for just an instrumental version of some 80 beat tune, no calling, no singing.
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Yoyo Zhou wrote:
Fri Feb 15 21:04:18 EST 2013
After some more digging, I found an 80-beat / 40-bar tune (AABCC), The
Maids of Mt. Kisco:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKDfjOpx0Yc (just the first 3 times through)
I also found some AABCC versions of Elzic's Farewell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ieaEHk77chttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdeSSEYryBE (too fast tempo)
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Marvelous! As always, the benefits of a Community.
(Guess that's what "Shared" means)
Thank you very much. -Jonathan King
Thank you all (and thank you Yoyo Zhou for identifying Cis)
for suggestions on modifying tunes to fit "Major Hey".
There are YouTube videas, purely instrumental, of the
72-beat version of "Cherokee Shuffle", e.g,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYduAMqy-Z8
which can be used for practicing calling the eponymous dance.
Now I'm guessing the answer is "no", but just to clarify:
Do any of you know of a YouTube video (or Vimeo, or
similar) with musicians playing an 80-beat tune [but with
no calling nor singing]?
Cheers, -Jonathan King
Re: 80 beat crooked tune:
You could fit the three part version of Ragtime Annie to it, but just do the C part once without a repeat.
You could do the full Billy Wilson, from the Portland Collection #2 if you don't know it. It would work perfectly!
Martha
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> From: squash(a)ufl.edu (Jonathan LF King)
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> Folks
>
> I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
> called version:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>
> I'm looking for just an instrumental version of some 80
> beat tune, no calling, no singing. Much thanks, -Jonathan King
>
> PS: Can someone identify the caller in the above clip? Ta.
>
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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Jonathan LF King <squash(a)ufl.edu> wrote:
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>> Folks
>>
>> I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
>> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
>> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
>> called version:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>>
>> It might be easier to find a tune that's AABBCC (for example, Reel
> Beatrice or Banish Misfortune) and just pretend the partner swing is extra
> long. Be careful when your actual band only plays 1 C part, though.
>
> The caller in the video is Cis Hinkle (her name appears in the last second
> of the video, and at 2:56 you can see her).
>
> Yoyo Zhou
>
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> When I call this dance - I just ask just ask the band if they have a 5 part tune.? Some do - dome don't
>
> If they don't - I just use a 4 part tune and know the dance will not start at the A1 each time - hasn't caused any problems
>
> You can call this as a 4 part dance if you leave out the Rory O More - but it isn't near as much fun
>
> Mac McKeever
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> Folks
>
> ? I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).?
> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats).? Here is a nice
> called version:
>
> ? ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>
> I'm looking for just an instrumental version of some 80
> beat tune, no calling, no singing.? Much thanks, -Jonathan King
>
> PS: Can someone identify the caller in the above clip?? Ta.
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> The band in the video is playing the old-time tune "Texas Gals", which
> is an AABBCC tune, with the C part played only once for this dance.
> This should work for many AABBCC tunes, but might feel weird to the
> band :).
>
>
> Suzanne
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Yoyo Zhou
>> Sent: Feb 14, 2013 11:33 PM
>> To: Caller's discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [Callers] Seeking on 80 beat "crooked" tune
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Jonathan LF King wrote:
>>
>>> Folks
>>>
>>> I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
>>> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
>>> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
>>> called version:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>>>
>>> It might be easier to find a tune that's AABBCC (for example, Reel
>> Beatrice or Banish Misfortune) and just pretend the partner swing is
> extra
>> long. Be careful when your actual band only plays 1 C part, though.
>>
>> The caller in the video is Cis Hinkle (her name appears in the last
> second
>> of the video, and at 2:56 you can see her).
>>
>> Yoyo Zhou
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The band in the video is playing the old-time tune "Texas Gals", which
is an AABBCC tune, with the C part played only once for this dance.
This should work for many AABBCC tunes, but might feel weird to the
band :).
Suzanne
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>Subject: Re: [Callers] Seeking on 80 beat "crooked" tune
>
>On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Jonathan LF King wrote:
>
>> Folks
>>
>> I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
>> practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
>> It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
>> called version:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
>>
>> It might be easier to find a tune that's AABBCC (for example, Reel
>Beatrice or Banish Misfortune) and just pretend the partner swing is
extra
>long. Be careful when your actual band only plays 1 C part, though.
>
>The caller in the video is Cis Hinkle (her name appears in the last
second
>of the video, and at 2:56 you can see her).
>
>Yoyo Zhou
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Folks
I'm looking for an online tune [presumably YouTube] for
practicing calling "Major Hey" (Erik Hoffman's dance).
It has five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). Here is a nice
called version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N62Ozg9Nm8Q
I'm looking for just an instrumental version of some 80
beat tune, no calling, no singing. Much thanks, -Jonathan King
PS: Can someone identify the caller in the above clip? Ta.
Thanks for all the ideas re the easy 'leaving the minor' set dances!
I like the idea of dances where the dancers realize/feel that they are
leaving the set but yet, they are well supported and experience success.
Moon and Star Contra sounds as though it would fit into that category well.
Sneak Peak/Preview sounds cool too as it's that introduction and then
finding those folks again. Interesting how Another Nice Combination kept
on coming up... :)
I'll have to test these and the others at one of our monthly callers
gatherings.
Thanks so much for the help!
:) Emily
