If you play in a band, you need to count the bars and figure out what you have to do to make the tune the right length in bars to fit the dance. If it needs 32 bar waltzes, you make it 32 bars... Cumberland Waltz has built-in repeats - the A music is 8 bars, followed by 8 more bars which are identical apart from the last two. The B music is similar. That makes 32 bars, which is the right length for most waltz dances. You might write it out as 16 bars per half of the tune, or as 8 bars with repeats and a "1st time" and "2nd time" ending. Actually there are some 16 bar dances, and with tunes like the Cumberland you end up playing once though the tune for twice through the dance. With The Man in The Moon, you play AABA (where A and B are both 8 bars of music) and it's 32 bars too. What's the problem?
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