If this is a duplicate discussion, I apologize. I couldn't find another one.
For years and years, I asked fiddlers to tell me / show me the difference between hornpipe and reel rhyhms. I could not get cogent or meaningful answers.
A few months ago I found this recording. The player is doing the same tune, first as a a reel, then as a hornpipe. (I don't know what the tune is, but that doesn't matter.) https://vimeo.com/35325677
I also found two dance links.
hornpipe dancing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgZTxsvWi_4
Reel dancing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvHeTArCnYQ
I've been discussing hornpipe rhythm with some fiddlers online. So far, I have gotten a bunch of complicated, technical comments about bowing and notation styles.
I play Rickett's Hornpipe on the mandolin as a hornpipe, with dotted rhythm like the links I post here. One fiddler says hornpipes are played with a backbeat, but the fiddler did not send an audio or video to illustrated this. Anyone know whether mandolin players play hornpipes with a backbeat -- and can provide a link to a back-beat hornpipe?
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