Can I just say that I really enjoy the depth of the rabbit holes we're
willing to go down on here, and how much fun it is to take a dive
along with *other people* who don't think it's weird at all?
On 5/2/22, jim saxe via Contra Callers
<contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Jeff,
How would you describe the phrase structure of the version of Beaumont Rag
that you just cited? A A B B? A1 A2 B1 B2? A B? Something else?
In the instructional video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS2Wb6nIjlU
the narrator begins (0:00-0:39) by playing a similar version of the tune. At
about 1:19, he says, "It's in A B form." At about 2:00 tablature appears
in
the upper right corner for what the narrator describes as "measure number
one." The time signature isn't shown, but from the beaming of the notes,
I'd
infer that it's 4/4. In any case, each "measure" of music in the tablature
includes what contra dance writers and callers would typically refer to as
"four beats" or "four counts" or "two measures" or
"two bars" of music.
--Jim
On May 2, 2022, at 7:48 AM, Jeff Kaufman via
Contra Callers
<contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Here's a common version of Beaumont Rag that's square and well phrased:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FTuWotf7TQ
Jeff
<older merssages snipped>
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