13 Sep
2013
13 Sep
'13
8:59 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Erik Hoffman <erik(a)erikhoffman.com> wrote:
I published it ... only to find out later that Tony
Parkes had
written the same dance -- for the same reason -- with the
variant of a B1 Half Promenade; Women Chain. ... Later I
found the same dance with the Right & Left Through, in
another book by a Lucille ...
This is part of why I'm skeptical that a contra dance would be
original enough to qualify for copyright protection: people keep
coming up with the same dances independently.
(The level of originality seems similar to that of a chord
progression. Both take basic vocabulary elements (figures/chords) and
string them into a series to make something coherent.)
(Now I want to make a mapping from dance figures to chord numbers and
see what dances sound like.)
Jeff