Re: [Musicians] Musicians Digest, Vol 20, Issue 3 - Musicians

30 Oct 2017

Emily,

Ross's Reel #4 seems a good change tune for Hull's Victory to me, and
Cracking Chestnuts (David Smuckler and David Millstone's excellent book)
agrees - they specifically mention that the melody emphasizes balances in
the same part of the dance as Hull's Victory.

The book in question is available from CDSS, and is a great resource!

https://www.cdss.org/vm-store/books/cracking-chestnuts-detail

Cheers,

Tim Ball

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 Wonderful Erik!
 I'll dig up Saddle the Pony.
 As well as us doing lots of modern things, we'd like to work up 5-6
 Chestnuts and play them within the tradition. :) :)
 Emily

 On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Erik Hoffman &lt;erik(a)erikhoffman.com&gt;
 wrote:

  Hi All,

 It is traditional to play the tune. In the old days it would have been
 just the tune. When medlies became normal, the modern standard is:
 Signature Tune, Other Tune, last two or three times: Signature Tune  again.

 Saddle the Pony has been used by a number of bands, since it was used as
 an alternate tune on the New England Chestnuts LP.

 BTW: I?m glad you?re doing this. I always find it funny when callers say,
 ?as in Rory O?More,? and when I look around I find 99 percent of the  people
  have no idea what Rory O?More is?

 Cheers,

 ~Erik

 *From:* Musicians [mailto:musicians-bounces@lists.sharedweight.net] *On
 Behalf Of *Emily Addison via Musicians
 *Sent:* Monday, October 30, 2017 7:49 AM
 *To:* musicians(a)sharedweight.net
 *Subject:* [Musicians] A question about sharing music notation online

 Hi All,

 A question for you about general etiquette on posting recently composed
 tunes (as in last 20-30yrs).

 I've seen MANY MANY recently composed tunes online through websites like
 The Session but also contra websites too.  Often these are posted by
 someone other than the composer and it's not listed as to whether they  have
  permission to post.

 Here in Ottawa, our community band (we're not pros and play almost all  our
  gigs for free.), we're working on learning a
varied contra music  repertoire
  for dancing.  In fact, our community band is
called 'Stolen Goods' as  we're
  about learning from others.

 I've been thinking that it would be nice to post our sets online as part
 of the wider sharing so that others can benefit... just like we've
 benefited from looking at what others (like SPUDS) have posted.

 What's the etiquette here?

 For instance, we play a handful of Keith Murphy tunes and he's got books.
 And we have Larry Unger and others too...

 If we post a few is that ok?  Seems that's what others do, especially in
 irish and quebecois traditions but I'm just not sure as some of the  contra
  musicians have tune books.  Could refer to a few
tune books.

 Also, we've written out a few sets from other bands (e.g., one from Wild
 Asparagus) as we're trying to learn from their groove/chord lines etc.  and
  we are just a local learning band that plays for
20 dancers.   If we only
 have 1-2 from a particular band, are those ok to post?

 Looking for your thoughts!

 By no means do I need to post of course... ... .just interested in giving
 back to the wider community what we've been learning over the last number
 of years.

 With thanks :)

 Emily Addison in Ottawa