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Thread #142938   Message #3455723
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
22-Dec-12 - 08:43 AM
Thread Name: Rapid playing: Loss of control?
Subject: RE: Rapid playing: Loss of control?
A beautiful piece of Irish dancing! Perfect timing and control.

Not quite sure how you define "a Morris Tune" as some of the tunes that are used for Morris dancing are used for other sorts of dancing or even pipe marches and songs: e.g. the tune I know as "Wha wadna fecht for Chairlie", and might be used in a Gay Gordons set or sung, is pretty much the same tune as I've often heard Morris teams use (tho' I think it goes by another name S of the Border). And there are many other examples of tunes that have crossed the Irish Sea and have different names either side of it, or the bigger "pond". Unless a tune was written specifically for a Morris team to dance to, it probably shouldn't be called "a Morris tune".

Apologies for thread drift!