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Uploaded by on Mar 12, 2007

Non-traditional hornpipe from Scoil Rince na hEasan's pre-St. Patrick's Day show.

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  • very original choice of song- "the rights of man" usually isnt a hornpipe

  • @ceroeck Strange. I've never heard The Rights of Man as anything other than a hornpipe.

  • @ceroeck It isn't a hornpipe - this is danced as a 'Set- Dance' or sometimes called a step-dance. It's usually in 6/8. This is played in 12/8. I've even seen it marked as a march 1 I've been playing it for years and like to follow it with the Butterfly. (9/8 slip-jig - though I've seen it danced once as a Hop (heavy-shoed) jig.

  • @pfiddle I've been involved in Irish dance for nearly 30 years, and I've seen (and performed) solo hornpipes to Rights of Man played in 4/4 with the "swing." In fact, I've never seen it done any other way. That's not to say it isn't done any other way.

    Even so, in set dancing, a hornpipe is still a hornpipe- just played without the swing. (And I've never heard of set dancing refered to as "step dancing," either. Or of any hop jig danced in heavy shoes.)

  • what comp. is that? looks like the oireachtas but i could be wrong : )

  • Not the O. It was just a show.

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  • @valery374. Music/dances change. I've seen huge changes over the last 50 years - especially as records took over how music "should" be played - My mother complained of the same problem in the 20/30's.

    Even Irish flings - probably our only indigenous Irish dance form/tune is being lost - at least down here in the South of the country as they're now always played as Barn dances Single jigs became slides. A Belfast polka is much nearer to it's Polish roots than anything one will hear West or South

  • @Irish858Dancer heheh mine too ;D

  • straighten your knees and point your toes :)

  • my friend is sitting here with me and she dances in open! lol but she wants you to know that you should stay up on your toes a bit more. otherwise, this is amazing! keep up the great work (:

  • You need to straighten your feet and make sure and cross them

  • i like your dress

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