Identifying Musical Phrasing
Phrasing in Dance Skating
by Gerri Barnes-Hampton
Official International tunes for the Fourteen Step for both ice and roller are "Fourteen Men Blowing", "Pretty Helena", and "Bandit Polka". These are 100 bpm Marches.
They are all great tunes for the 14-Step because each phrase (20 beats) perfectly matches the steps of the Fourteen Step (20 beats), and if you start on Count 1 of a phrase the dance looks great.
... but if you do not start on Count 1 of a phrase, the whole dance looks and feels awful and SHOULD BE PENALISED, in my humble opinion, because it means the dancers can't tell that they are out of time with the phrasing of the music ... AND because some/many/most ice and roller rulebooks specify that Step 1 must start of Count 1 of the first phrase.
The Fourteen Step requires 20 beats of music for one repetition, and two repetitions for one circuit of the rink.
but there's a catch ..
each tune has 6 PHRASES (of 5 bars, i.e. 20 beats, each), so if you miss starting on Count 1 of the FIRST PHRASE you have to wait 20 beats for the second phrase to start ... but does this leave you enough music to complete the number of repetitions required for the dance? Not for roller dance! (ice requires 2 circuits, but roller 3) And it looks so bad waiting around for 20 beats!
Musical structure of these tunes
~ 8 bar Intro then:
Phrase 1: 1-2-3-4 2-2-3-4 3-2-3-4 4-2-3-4 5-2-3-4 (= 1st pattern)
Phrase 2: 1-2-3-4 2-2-3-4 3-2-3-4 4-2-3-4 5-2-3-4 (= 2nd pattern, 1st circuit)
Phrase 3: 1-2-3-4 2-2-3-4 3-2-3-4 4-2-3-4 5-2-3-4 (= 3rd pattern)
Phrase 4: 1-2-3-4 2-2-3-4 3-2-3-4 4-2-3-4 5-2-3-4 (= 4th pattern, 2nd circuit)
Phrase 5: 1-2-3-4 2-2-3-4 3-2-3-4 4-2-3-4 5-2-3-4 (= 5th pattern for roller)
Phrase 6: 1-2-3-4 2-2-3-4 3-2-3-4 4-2-3-4 5-2-3-4 (= 6th pattern for roller, 3rd circuit)
by Gerri Barnes-Hampton
Official International tunes for the Fourteen Step for both ice and roller are "Fourteen Men Blowing", "Pretty Helena", and "Bandit Polka". These are 100 bpm Marches.
They are all great tunes for the 14-Step because each phrase (20 beats) perfectly matches the steps of the Fourteen Step (20 beats), and if you start on Count 1 of a phrase the dance looks great.
... but if you do not start on Count 1 of a phrase, the whole dance looks and feels awful and SHOULD BE PENALISED, in my humble opinion, because it means the dancers can't tell that they are out of time with the phrasing of the music ... AND because some/many/most ice and roller rulebooks specify that Step 1 must start of Count 1 of the first phrase.
The Fourteen Step requires 20 beats of music for one repetition, and two repetitions for one circuit of the rink.
but there's a catch ..
each tune has 6 PHRASES (of 5 bars, i.e. 20 beats, each), so if you miss starting on Count 1 of the FIRST PHRASE you have to wait 20 beats for the second phrase to start ... but does this leave you enough music to complete the number of repetitions required for the dance? Not for roller dance! (ice requires 2 circuits, but roller 3) And it looks so bad waiting around for 20 beats!
Musical structure of these tunes
~ 8 bar Intro then:
Phrase 1: 1-2-3-4 2-2-3-4 3-2-3-4 4-2-3-4 5-2-3-4 (= 1st pattern)
Phrase 2: 1-2-3-4 2-2-3-4 3-2-3-4 4-2-3-4 5-2-3-4 (= 2nd pattern, 1st circuit)
Phrase 3: 1-2-3-4 2-2-3-4 3-2-3-4 4-2-3-4 5-2-3-4 (= 3rd pattern)
Phrase 4: 1-2-3-4 2-2-3-4 3-2-3-4 4-2-3-4 5-2-3-4 (= 4th pattern, 2nd circuit)
Phrase 5: 1-2-3-4 2-2-3-4 3-2-3-4 4-2-3-4 5-2-3-4 (= 5th pattern for roller)
Phrase 6: 1-2-3-4 2-2-3-4 3-2-3-4 4-2-3-4 5-2-3-4 (= 6th pattern for roller, 3rd circuit)