Klarinet Archive - Posting 000178.txt from 2006/10

From: <nanandjames@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Greek Clarinet Music
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:52:33 -0400

Hello Wayne and List,

From what I've learned in percussion classes and seen in sheet music, the syrto rhythm is a 2/4, written in terms of sixteenth-notes. The rhythmic pattern is 3-3-2, illustrated by my teacher as one 1/8-note, one 1/16-note, three barred 1/16-notes (first one is accented), two barred 1/16-notes (first one is accented).

Hope this is responsive and helpful!

Nancy

---- Wayne Thompson <wthompson222@-----.net> wrote:
> List,
> It seems that someone out there must have much
> experience than I, but aside from Fred Jacobowitz, no
> one else seems to be speaking from experience. Well,
> I have danced the Syrtos about a million times in
> recreational dance situations, and it has never been
> clear to me what the meter is. It is a
> 'slow-quick-quick' dance step. Is it closer to 3-2-2
> or 4-2-2 (i.e. 2-1-1) or something in between? I bet
> that if you went to Los Angeles and hired a Greek band
> for a wedding you would still find the musicians to be
> working from an aural tradition. I have heard that a
> hundred years ago when Middle European folk dances
> were getting written down by musicologists, the meters
> as played by the musicians did not always fit neatly
> into the western systems used to record them. Is this
> discussion an example of this? Or maybe in the
> villages the meter varied slightly from town to town,
> tradition to tradition, or tune to tune. Is this
> possible from your point of view, Fred?
>
> I'm about to drive down the hill to Bakersfield. I'll
> take a CD of Greek dances and see if I can work it out
> better as I drive. :)
>
> Wayne Thompson
>
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