pennsicdance: ball suggestions

[Greg Lindahl]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:03:16PM -0400, Monica Cellio wrote:

> > For Italian, something like the existing arrangements you've done
> > would be great.
> 
> Ok, I was reading a sub-text that apparently wasn't there: that
> written arrangements for these dances tend to be too complicated
> to easily sight-read.

That's true for Burgundians at the tempo people like dancing
Burgundians. Lauro is Italian, and we actually know it's supposed to
go at a slower tempo.

> (And these are dances that would probably
> not be danced a lot outside of Pennsic, so you won't get a lot of
> musicians who already know them.)

That depends -- there's a lot of stuff that's spread far and wide
after being done at Pennsic. It does take time, though.

-- Gregory Blount