Issue 1011: Time Signature Update
- Object
- The Pride of Dunblane (Dance)
- Submitter
- Alex Brick (Cabhan)
- Assigned to
- Anselm Lingnau
- Priority
- Normal
- Disposition
- Being handled
- Description
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The dance is listed on Strathspey Server as a 32-bar reel, but according to the pamphlet, it is a 32-bar hornpipe: https://www.scottishdance.net/dances/ThePrideOfDunblaneLeaflet.pdf
Furthermore, the pamphlet notes that this dance is 32 bars with a 2/4 hornpipe, not a standard 4/4 hornpipe. I don’t know where it is appropriate to inclue that information, but it would be good to have.
Thank you!
Previous Actions
- Date Sept. 27, 2016, 4:36 p.m.
- User Alex Figl-Brick (Cabhan)
New issue submitted
- Date Sept. 28, 2016, 1:44 a.m.
- User Anselm Lingnau (anselm)
Assigned changed to »anselm« (previously »None«)
Disposition changed to »Being handled« (previously »New«)
As a matter of policy, the database does not differentiate between “vanity hornpipes” (i.e., dances that are really reels to hornpipe tunes, like “The Sailor”) and reels. This is because in these cases the “hornpipe” tag does not provide useful information to dancers, and makes searching for dances more complex as the search function would have to take into account that vanity hornpipes are really reels. In the database, we use “hornpipe” for a handful of dances, mostly devised by Rob Sargent, that use Irish-style hornpipe tunes played “dotted” and at a lower speed.
Looking at the video for the dance in question here, this is obviously neither a “vanity hornpipe” nor a slow hornpipe à la Rob Sargent, but some sort of schottische (like the Canadian Barn Dance, the designation on the dance description notwithstanding). The best way out of the dilemma might be to classify it to whatever we’re using for the Canadian Barn Dance – i.e., “Other” – and add a note to the “Extra Info” tab saying that the deviser claims it’s a hornpipe.