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	'''Music''' Here you can suggest tunes, rhythms, etc which will suit the dance. Don't assume that anybody will take any notice of what you suggest. If they don't, just accept it as the 'folk process'.		'''Music''' Here you can suggest tunes, rhythms, etc which will suit the dance. Don't assume that anybody will take any notice of what you suggest. If they don't, just accept it as the 'folk process'.

			'''Historical Information''' Did it evolve from an earlier dance? Did somebody re-write it? Did it travel to anothert country and come back? Anything interesting about the dance can by included here.

JohnnyAdams: New page: Dance notation is often contentious, but for the purposes of the barn, country or ceilidh dance, a very simple description will suffice. There will be some moves which will need defining a...

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New page: Dance notation is often contentious, but for the purposes of the barn, country or ceilidh dance, a very simple description will suffice. There will be some moves which will need defining a...

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Dance notation is often contentious, but for the purposes of the barn, country or ceilidh dance, a very simple description will suffice. There will be some moves which will need defining and these definitions will develop as Folkopedia grows. Here is a starting point for annotating dances - it may well change as people come up with ideas for good practice.

Check out [[Soldier's Joy]] as a guide to how to present information.

'''Dance Title''' plus the ''version'' (county version, caller's variant, identify why this is different from another version).

'''Origin''' Did somebody collect it? Did somebody write it?

'''Source''' Where is it written down? Is it in a book or magazine? Was it observed by you, the contributor, at a dance.

'''Form''' Is it a circle dance, a longways, 4 or 5 couple set...........

'''The Dance'''

This is based on the music - A, B and maybe even C and D music parts.

An 'A' is usually 8 bars of music (but sometimes 4)

Many dances consist of two A musics and two B musics but there are lots of variations.

'''Music''' Here you can suggest tunes, rhythms, etc which will suit the dance. Don't assume that anybody will take any notice of what you suggest. If they don't, just accept it as the 'folk process'.

Dance annotation guide - Revision history

JohnnyAdams at 23:04, 1 May 2007

JohnnyAdams: New page: Dance notation is often contentious, but for the purposes of the barn, country or ceilidh dance, a very simple description will suffice. There will be some moves which will need defining a...