...another ponder. What is it about musicians and gardening? Love those ponds. I think we earlier had input on this subject that the dance mazurka has the third beat stressed, unlike the waltz, where the first beat of the measure is stressed. It is amazing how many versions of these tunes there are, isn't it? The old folk process at work - also, I've been thinking about this lately, and that there are so many people playing dance tunes without the dancers (!) that the music is changing (too fast, etc) because it is not being played or listened to so much in the context for which it was created.

Alice