The Story of Irish Dance by Helen Brennan
Author:Helen Brennan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001-03-10T16:00:00+00:00
Typical hop jig tunes include “The Rocky Road to Dublin” and “Drops of Brandy”.
The Reel
Around 1500, a dance including a “hay” or interweaving figure-of-eight or “reeling” movement was imported from France into England and Scotland and thence to Ireland. The English hay-for-three and the Scottish reel-for-three derive from this common origin. In the sixteenth century and seventeenth century, we find references to the “Irish hay” in English popular drama and song.
The musical connection between this early hay or reel form and the modern reel in 4/4 time with its characteristic bars of
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