{"id":33623,"date":"2017-06-07T13:15:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T18:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=33623"},"modified":"2017-06-07T16:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:42:30","slug":"idiot-dance-for-17th-century-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/idiot-dance-for-17th-century-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiot dance tune, for 17th-century idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nonesuch.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nonesuch-640x305.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"305\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33622\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nonesuch-640x305.png 640w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nonesuch-768x366.png 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nonesuch.png 919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Advisory: Survivors of the Society for Creative Anachronism might find this post traumatic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is a set of variations on possibly the most annoying tune ever notated, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nonesuch-16.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Nonesuch<\/a>,&#8221; from John Playford&#8217;s 1651 <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbm.com\/~lindahl\/playford_1651\/\" target=\"_blank\">The English Dancing Master<\/a><\/b><\/i>. It&#8217;s arranged here for virtual guitar, bass and drums.<span id='easy-footnote-1-33623' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/idiot-dance-for-17th-century-idiots\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-33623' title='I&amp;#8217;m assuming a five-string bass with an extended low range, so I can use a low D.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. For the morbidly curious, the guitar is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.applied-acoustics.com\/strum-gs-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">AAS Strum GS-2<\/a> and the bass the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.applied-acoustics.com\/string-studio-vs-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">String Studio VS-2<\/a>. The drums are Logic&#8217;s Ultrabeat, augmented with percussion from the <a href=\"http:\/\/bcvsts.blogspot.com\/2016\/11\/the-vsco2-orchestra.html\" target=\"_blank\">VSCO2 orchestra<\/a>. As always, I&#8217;m not completely happy with this, but I want to move on to fresh disasters.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-33623-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nonesuch-16.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nonesuch-16.mp3\">http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nonesuch-16.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>(Right-click on the tune title to download the .mp3.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advisory: Survivors of the Society for Creative Anachronism might find this post traumatic. Here is a set of variations on possibly the most annoying tune ever notated, &#8220;Nonesuch,&#8221; from John Playford&#8217;s 1651 The English Dancing Master. It&#8217;s arranged here for virtual guitar, bass and drums.. For the morbidly curious, the guitar is the AAS Strum &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/idiot-dance-for-17th-century-idiots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Idiot dance tune, for 17th-century idiots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-8Kj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33623"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33637,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33623\/revisions\/33637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}