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Stepdance steps vary according to the "Celtic" tune type played, such as jigs, reels, strathspeys, clogs, hornpipes, two-steps, and polkas. A reel, the most common tune type in Canadian stepdance, is played in 4/4 time, and is fun, fast and lively. A jig, also quite popular, is played in 6/8 time and sounds like an energetic march.
Southeastern turtleshell rattles, worn on the legs while dancing, c. 1920, Oklahoma History Center The stomp dance is performed by various Eastern Woodland tribes and Native American communities in the United States, including the Muscogee, Yuchi, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Delaware, Miami, Caddo, Tuscarora, Ottawa, Quapaw, Peoria, Shawnee, Seminole, [1] Natchez, [2] and Seneca-Cayuga tribes.
reel - step dance - strathspey: fiddle: ceilidh: Irish-American [14] ballad - emigrant ballad - sean nos: clogging - hornpipe - jig - reel - step dance - square dance: banjo - dulcimer - fiddle - guitar - harmonica - mandolin: Iroquois [15] Eagle Dance - Quiver Dance - Warrior's Stomp Dance drum - rattle - water drum: Italian-American: See ...
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The social dances can be categorized into three types of step styles: "stomp," "fish" and "side-step shuffle". Stomp is a shuffling type of dance, the right foot leads and the left foot is brought up to meet the right. The feet "hit" the floor with just enough impact to maintain the beat of the song. Fish is a dance where each foot hits in two ...
Leahy is a Canadian folk music group. The eight band members, all from the Leahy family of 11 siblings, are from Lakefield, Ontario and have been touring Canada and internationally since the early 1980s, when they were known as The Leahy Family.
As we know from the title of this movement, it is the style of two-step. [3] Although the 6/8 meter is commonly used for the two-step dance, Boury chose 2/4. “Compound time is just too messy for this piece. With all the development that happens, a pianist would get lost in the middle of the bar”~R. Boury. [4]
Notation of a typical 4/4 podorythmie rhythm. Podorythmie is a traditional French Canadian method of tapping one's feet during musical performances, which is a common practice in Québécois and Acadian music, and to a lesser extent, Canadian folk music as a whole.