pennsicdance: ball suggestions

[Judithsca at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/20/2002 4:19:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, abc102 at psu.edu 
writes:


> Of course, it should also be one for which a good arrangement can be gotten.
> And it might be best to have an arrangement that matches the Italian tempo 
> di
> bassadanza as commonly interpreted in the SCA, so that people don't have to
> learn from scratch just to do one basse danse..
> 

Well, there is a huge difference between the french basse danse and the 
italian bassadanze.  The french are danced in 3, and the Italian in 6 (i.e. 
The French are twice as fast as the Italian style, and thus they move very 
differently).  Also, I have never met a pick up band that could play a 
bassedanse tune well enough for me to dance to it (if one cannot here the 
tenor line clearly, then one cannot find the rhythm at all).  Since we have 
had to compose music for the Italian bassadanze (no one bothered to provide 
anything specific), various people use various music for them (Lauro, for 
example, is danced to at least three different types of music, one written by 
a SCAdian, the other a recording by the Forse Que Si people, and the third a 
spagne setting, which is in 3 and feels very wrong to me for an Italian dance)

J
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