15: Cuckles all a Row |
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for 4 (in a square) |
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mms pages 26 to 29 |
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Playford
version: from 1st edition to 18th edition. |
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Music: |
Plenty |
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Part 1 |
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Verse 1, Part A |
1: |
Lead up [a double] to one
another |
2: |
and down [a double] again |
Verse 1, Part B |
1: |
Lead up [a double] |
2: |
[Fall back a double] |
Chorus 1, Part
A |
1-2: |
The men go around their
partners [with two doubles] |
3-4: |
Then they go around their
opposites (the other woman in the set) [with two doubles] |
Chorus 1, Part
B |
1-2: |
The men go around their
opposites [with two doubles] |
3-4: |
and then the go around
their partners [with two doubles] |
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Part 2 |
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Verse 2, Part A |
1-2: |
Side [left to line up right
shoulders] with your partner |
Verse 2, Part B |
1-2: |
Side [right to line up left
shoulders] with your opposite |
Chorus 2, Part
A |
1: |
Men switch places through
the center of the square |
2: |
Women switch places through
the center of the square |
3-4: |
Take hands all around and
circle [left] back to place |
Chorus 2, Part
B |
1: |
Women switch places through
the center of the square |
2: |
Men switch places through
the center of the square |
3-4: |
Take hands all around and
circle the other way back to place |
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Part 3 |
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Verse 3, Part A |
1-2: |
Arm [left (right arms, walk
left)] with your partner, or perhaps your opposite ("if you
please") |
Verse 3, Part B |
1-2: |
Arm [right (left arms, walk
right)] with the other |
Chorus 3, Part
A |
1: |
The men take their
opposites by both hands and draw them back [a double], angling as they do so
as to line up all four in a single line (the cuckolds in a row) |
2: |
The men push their
opposites back into place on the opposite side from where they started |
3: |
The couples switch places,
couple 1 going between couple 2 |
4: |
The couples switch places
again, couple 2 going between couple 1 |
Chorus 3, Part
B |
1-2: |
The men draw their
opposites back again and return to their normal side of the square |
3: |
The couples switch places,
couple 2 going between couple 1 |
4: |
The couples switch places
again, couple 1 going between couple 2 |
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Comparison to
the Playford version (1st to 18th editions) |
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The version in this
manuscript matches very well to the Playford version except for the
back-to-back figure in chorus 1, and the "racetrack" in chorus
3. Everything else cooresponds well
enough to call these the same dance. |
Conclusions: |
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Two things of note: first is the possibility of reversing the
order of the third verse (you may arm with your partner either first or last,
"if you please") - just a little more of that freedom that Playford
dancers seldom have. |
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Second is the way that the
author of this manuscript somehow believes that the second half of the third
chorus is going to be contrary to the first half. He is explicit in saying that "they
shall draw them contrary to that as they did before", in other words,
"he that drawed his woeman upward before, shall now draw her
downward". |
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However, the double
switches that follow the pull-and-push end with each man on the same side of
the square as he was before, so that when he pulls his opposite back, it will
be in the same "upward" or "downward" direction as the
first time. |
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Was there supposed to be
this kind of reversed symetry, and it just doesn't actually work that way, or
did I get the reconstruction wrong? |
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