Just two days away!

Join us at Alderwood Community Centre for Scottish Country Dancing Improver (level 2) classes.

🗓️ Starts Monday, Sept 29
⏰ 7:30–9:30 PM

Level 2 classes will build on the skills learned in Level 1 classes.

Learn more here https://dancescottish.ca/

Will ye join us? It will no be the same without ye.

#WestEndToronto #FallClasses #ScottishCountryDancing

And I ended a fun day at the Royal Scottish County Dance Society's Burns Night Dinner. SO MUCH FUN.

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#BurnsNight #WaterlooRegion #ScottishCountryDancing #GalAboutTown

My previous pinned #introductionpost post is quite old, so here's a new go ...

I teach #linguistics at the #UniversityOfAlberta. Professional interests include #AccessiblePedagogy, #Phonetics, #QuantitativeMethods (#statistics), #SpeechTechnology, #InternetLinguistics, #WritingSystems, and #EnglishSpellingReform

Outside of work, I like #ScottishCountryDancing, #Canoeing, and various nerdy pursuits such as #TTRPGs and #StarTrek. 🤓

Okay, here's a curly #music sourcing problem… my mother recently started getting back into #ScottishCountryDancing after a long hiatus, and is now teaching it here in Brisbane.

It came up in her group that there's a dance they haven't done they'd like to do: "The Road to the Isles".

https://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/dance-crib/road-to-the-isles.html

The music for this was composed by Pipe Major John McLellan DCM… There are a few versions of it floating around, but for the dance (a #strathspey) which is danced with four couples; the music needs to more-or-less "repeat" 4 times.

I did find a #MIDI version of it here: http://www.whitestick.co.uk/midi.html -- which hosts a version sequenced by Barry Taylor.

I managed to get Rosegarden + timidity + alsa + pipewire playing well enough together to get it playing and possibly manipulate it.

I also managed to get timidity on the command line to render the MIDI file to a (not great sounding) MP3.

I figure I can possibly edit this file to get what this group is after… but I wonder if someone knows where to buy/download… a suitable copy that someone has performed and recorded? Something performed by real musicians, rather than a MIDI file that's been ham-fistedly edited by a software geek is likely going to be a better option.

Thanks in advance.

Here's a new #introduction post to celebrate moving to this new server. (Previously @TimPhon)

I'm a #linguistics instructor at the University of Alberta. Academic interests include #phonetics, #quantitativeMethods (#statistics), and #speechTechnology. Working on #accessiblePedagogy in all my teaching. Hobby interests include #internetLinguistics, #spellingReform, and #ScottishCountryDancing. 🤓