{"items": [{"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118273920476267337216", "anchor": "gp-1350960119031", "service": "gp", "text": "The thing I find off-putting about a lot of morris is how the accompanying music (the violin in this case) sounds hopelessly plodding. Is that because the music is accompanying the dancers, and trying to synch with them, as opposed to vice versa? It seems very common in morris and rapper.\n
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\n(Also, I am a heathen who knows nothing about music. But I know that compared to, say, the music at country dances, morris music sounds, well, plodding.)", "timestamp": 1350960119}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/387341371335110?comment_id=387363314666249", "anchor": "fb-387363314666249", "service": "fb", "text": "Ha, when I saw the beginning of your comment on fb, I thought of shin-mounted accelerometers, but I see you had that in the full note.", "timestamp": "1350964183"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1350993667198", "service": "gp", "text": "@Josh\n\u00a0Morris music is much slower than country dance music, and emphasizes the downbeat much more. \u00a0Perhaps that's what you dislike?", "timestamp": 1350993667}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118273920476267337216", "anchor": "gp-1350994326096", "service": "gp", "text": "See \"heathen who knows nothing\". :^) Is that a deliberate part of the style?\n
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\nThat's probably what sounds weird to me. And there's nothing wrong with slow per se; it may be that the tunes sound to me like they're supposed to be fast, but aren't, or something.", "timestamp": 1350994326}, {"author": "Jan-Willem", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/100580955183019057735", "anchor": "gp-1350995116847", "service": "gp", "text": "My wife was listening to a Steeleye Span live track where the band morris danced yesterday morning, and was complaining that the problem with morris bells is that you can either step on the beat (in which case the bells sound off the beat and muddy) or you can dance ahead of the beat in the hopes of actually getting the bells to sound rhythmically. \u00a0You can't really do both, and the latter is nigh-impossible for anyone who hasn't practiced for years.", "timestamp": 1350995116}]}