Klarinet Archive - Posting 000182.txt from 2006/10

From: "Ellie Anastasiou" <ellie_is@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Greek Clarinet Music
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:02:13 -0400

Thanks Nancy, where did you get the sheet music?
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From: <nanandjames@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Cc: "Wayne Thompson" <wthompson222@-----.net>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Greek Clarinet Music

> 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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