minstrel: Fw: [Mid] Song lyrics for popular dances

[Frederick R. Matzen]

Without doing more research I can say that a song called Daphne, which I regularly
perform, is also a country dance called Hit or Miss. There are MANY others
although some are a bit Bawdy.

Drew & Capri & Max/Sorcha & Purple & Max wrote:

> This came off the middle bridge.  Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> in service and in song,
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Finnvarr de Taahe <finnvarr at ealdormere.sca.org>
> To: Middlebridge <sca-middle at midrealm.org>; Calontir <Calontir at unl.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 7:46 PM
> Subject: [Mid] Song lyrics for popular dances
>
> >At the recent Tournament and Feast of Seemings in Flaming Sky,
> >Ealdormere, we found ourselves dancing the Maltese Bransle to our own
> >sung music.  Of course we had no words but made do with "Da da DA da Da
> >da DA da da..."
> >
> >My lady Ragni comes from Latvia where a lot of simple folk dances are
> >done to sung music with lyrics that everyone knows.   It occurred to her
> >that if popular SCA dances had lyrics, then dancing would be lots
> >easier.   If you had the right number of people who knew the dance, then
> >you'd have the music.


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