24 Aug
2018
24 Aug
'18
12:08 a.m.
Most, if not all, Lloyd Shaw recordings are available as mp3s.
Rich
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 5:18 PM Ridge Kennedy srk3nn3dy(a)gmail.com
[trad-dance-callers] <trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I do it with the sequence: AB AAB AAB AAB AAB AB Is's an opener (AB)
one time through for each couple leading (AAB) and then a repeat of the
opener as the closer (AB).
Best shot at finding pre-recorded version will be through Modern Western
square dance sources like DoSISo.com . The Lloyd Shaw Foundation had some
recordings, too, and it would be maybe a likely source, but I don't know if
they are available any more. You could check that out.
I've had good luck getting a few musicians tother and having a recording
session. The recordings are not super high quality, but work fine for a
dance party.
Ridge (in New Joisey)
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 3:53 PM jim saxe jim.saxe(a)gmail.com
[trad-dance-callers] <trad-dance-callers(a)yahoogroups.com> wrote:
John Sweeney asked:
--
Ridge Kennedy [Exit 145]
www.ridgekennedy.com
When you stumble, make it part of the dance.
Please can anyone recommend a good instrumental
recording of the music
for the Redwing square dance?
and Rich Sbardella repliedL
Are you looking for the 32 bar or 48 bar (for Dip
n Dive) square?
I'll add:
Are you looking for a recording suitable for use at a dance without
editing (dance length, dance tempo, maybe an intro to help get your
calling off to a clean start)? Or are you looking for some to
practice calling to at home, even if it's not full length? Or
something musicians can listen to as an example of a danceable
rendition, even if you're going to have them play it more times
through and maybe double on of the parts at an actual dance?
I think finding listenable instrumentals won't be hard, at least
for the 32-bar version. Finding a instrumental recording that you
can use as is for calling the 48-bar version of the dance seems
like a tall order unless someone happens to know of one made for
that purpose.
Note, by the way, that 48-bar version with the dip-and-dive figure
is sometimes called with an intro and possibly middle break and
ending, of different length. For example, in this recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ABJca4GO8Q
the main figure is 48 bars (32 bars of A music plus 16 bars of B),
but the intro, middle break, and ending are just 16 bars (B music
only), so that the overall pattern is
B AAB AAB B AAB AAB B
where the A and B parts are each 16 bars long (in contrast to the
usual 8-bar length for parts of a contra tune/dance). I've also
seen versions of the dance described with the structure
AB AAB AAB AAB AAB AAB AAB
(32-bar intro; 48-bar main figures, middle break, and ending) and
I think also one with the structure
AB AAB AAB AB AAB AAN AB .
It would be surprising if someone without such a dance structure
in mind just happened to publish a recording of "Redwing" fitting
one of those patterns.
--Jim