pennsicdance: Mildly OT: Recording Music for Pennsic

[L.J. Sparvero]

At 08:17 AM 7/28/2003, Philip Edward Lewis wrote:
>I'm thinking about bringing my laptop to pennsic, and was hpoing to
>perhaps record some music... things that are not available
>otherwise... or things which might need a special repeat pattern,
>etc...

I'd be *very* appreciative if I could get a few pieces done with the play 
speed changing at will. There's a 15th c. Italian exercise where the 
musicians change tempo (speed up or slow down the beats per minute) to try 
and draw the dancers off tempo. It's sort of like how SCA Maltese/Turkish 
Branle is done. Although this is meant for Italian 15th c. balli, it works 
for any dance tune (thanks to Danielle for pointing this out to me!)

This way if I'm teaching in groups which don't have many live musicians, I 
can point them to a recording where the tempo changes.

Now, there might be a way to do this with musical editing software and some 
of the freely available MIDI's of dance tunes. If so, I'd very much 
appreciate someone taking an evening to show me the basics!

As for tunes that I can't get ahold of easily, I think il Piantone and 
Bella Gioioso come to mind. And maybe a slower version of Gracca Amoroso 
for teaching.

Thanks again, -Lyev