The idea behind German Dances is to get your body in swing--I do not look to them for emotion in any instance. Good party music. The one with the bird whistles (proto-Birtwistle, perhaps?) is one of the rare excursions into cutesiness that I actually laugh with rather than at. Aaron J. Rabushka [log in to unmask] http://www.cowtown.net/users/arabushk/