Annotation:Starlight Stop Jig: Difference between revisions

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-{{TuneAnnotation='''STARLIGHT.'''  American, "Stop Jig" (2/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.  "Starlight" is categorized as a "stop jig", a combination of two dance elements of late 19th solo dancing, often for the stage. A "straight jig" is a type of syncopated duple-time reel, akin to a schottische, used as a vehicle for solo dancing (often for the stage). It became a fashion for a time to build in 'stops' in dances where the movements ceased altogether for a short period of time and dancers hesitated or even stood frozen in place, before the music and dance commenced again a beat or two later.
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 |f_printed_sources=A.S. Bowman ('''J.W. Pepper Collection of Five Hundred Reels, Jigs, etc.'''), Phila., 1908; No. 19, p. 6.
 |f_see_also_listing=See/hear Duke Univ. Professor Thomas F. DeFrantz explain some of the late 19th century dances at youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A34OD4eA17o&t=17s]<br>
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