LittleBlueRhino's Music and Dance Page

Being a LittleBlueRhino I don't know a great deal about Music, But 'Catherine', a friend of mine has helped me make some notes on my favourite tune..

I particularly like the music of the eighteenth century French Composer Marin Marais. One of his pieces, from the opera "Alcyone", is a very happy dance tune for the matelots and matelottes (male and female sailors) in the opera. This tune is the same one as the carol "Masters in this Hall". I like to dance to this and I have a whole series of steps, some slow and dumpy and some quick and scuttly. I have to make sure that I haven't eaten too many hoops or I start to feel dizzy and ill and the whirly parts have to be left out. I like to sing along with this, and sometimes the tune comes back into my head just as I am resting and I sing:
"I'm a little matelot, And my ears go to and fro!".

This makes me very happy and my friends love it too!

Be prepared for the next installment of my musical Lexicon.

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