Historical context of "The Rights of Man"?

satyricon234 · Post by **satyricon234** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:54 am

Bloomfield wrote: First, I'd introduce it as a tune not a song.

I afraid I don't understand the distinction. Would you please enlighten me?

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:02 am

dubhlinn wrote:
GaryKelly wrote: Didn't they make a film about that? Roger Moore was in it I think.

Sarcasm is unbecoming of you, you cheeky little monkey.
Roger Moore my arse!

It's true! I read it on the internet!

"Wild Geese: Richard Burton plays Col. Allen Faulkner, a middle-aged, cynical mercenary who enlists his old friends Rafer Johnson (played by Richard Harris) and Sean Finn (Roger Moore) to help him with one last mission."

See?

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:05 am

satyricon234 wrote:
Bloomfield wrote: First, I'd introduce it as a tune not a song.

I afraid I don't understand the distinction. Would you please enlighten me?

If you sing it, it's a song. If you don't sing it, it's not a song.

If you play it, it's a tune, unless you could have sung it but didn't, in which case it's an air.

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:09 am

satyricon234 wrote:
Bloomfield wrote: First, I'd introduce it as a tune not a song.
I afraid I don't understand the distinction. Would you please enlighten me?

Songs usually have words sung to a tune and have verses and a chorus. That is, if I know what a song it.

Dance tunes have different parts, usually played (2 part tune) aabb or abab.

Isn't the correct title "The Wrongs of Women"?

satyricon234 · Post by **satyricon234** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:09 am

Bloomfield wrote:

If you sing it, it's a song. If you don't sing it, it's not a song.

If you play it, it's a tune, unless you could have sung it but didn't, in which case it's an air.

...and, to air is human and to slipjig divine.

Thank you so much for clearing that up. I could have made a great fool of myself someday.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:14 am

satyricon234 wrote:Thank you so much for clearing that up. I could have made a great fool of myself someday.

You laugh. But just try walking into a session and asking the musicians after a hornpipe set what the name of that last song was... Stony silence will ensue, I tell you, and mumbling into Guiness glasses over the decline of civilization and the coming of the ice age.

You could just introduce the Rights of Man as a hornpipe.

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:22 am

satyricon234 wrote:
...and, to air is human and to slipjig divine.

Thank you so much for clearing that up. I could have made a great fool of myself someday.

Please make a great fool of yourself every day. I like company....

Airs, horneypipes, jigs, slip jigs, single jigs, and slides rule! Reels are sadly much to popular (except for College Groves).

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:41 am

fancypiper wrote:Airs, horneypipes, jigs, slip jigs, single jigs, and slides rule!

I have a few slide rules, do they count?

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:46 am

Fancy,
Horneypipes??
Would they be some from of traditional Irish Contraceptive or what...??

Slan,
D.

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:50 am

glauber wrote: I have a few slide rules, do they count?

Hey, I still use my K&E occasionally.

They only count if you have a secretary that transcribes your report as "All calculations were done with a sly drool."

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:56 am

dubhlinn wrote:

Fancy,
Horneypipes??
Would they be some from of traditional Irish Contraceptive or what...??

Slan,
D.

Certainly! Isn't the traditional Irish contraceptive the rhythm method????

If you play them slow enough, it might make the dancers too tired to do anything else and could possibly work if you can make them dance again every time they recover their breath it might even work better.....

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:06 am

Well now Fancy,
That would explain many of the horn(ey)pipe titles in O'Neills.

'Nuff said.

Slan,
D.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:22 pm

Well, now, you know why an Irishman wears two condoms at a time: to be sure, to be sure...

Fancypiper, the alternate tune to The Rights of Man is rumored hereabouts to be The Duties of Woman. Haven't heard it yet, myself.

*ducking and running*

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:40 pm

Nanohedron wrote:Well, now, you know why an Irishman wears two condoms at a time: to be sure, to be sure...

Fancypiper, the alternate tune to The Rights of Man is rumored hereabouts to be The Duties of Woman. Haven't heard it yet, myself.

*ducking and running*

Some time ago now, a parchment was fpund and was thought to have come from the time of the Ark it being so ancient.
After long restoration work, the above joke was found written as marginalia.

True.

Slan,
D.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:43 pm

dubhlinn wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:Well, now, you know why an Irishman wears two condoms at a time: to be sure, to be sure...

Fancypiper, the alternate tune to The Rights of Man is rumored hereabouts to be The Duties of Woman. Haven't heard it yet, myself.

*ducking and running*
Some time ago now, a parchment was fpund and was thought to have come from the time of the Ark it being so ancient.
After long restoration work, the above joke was found written as marginalia.

True.

Slan,
D.

I guess it's just my love of tradition, dubhlinn.

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