32: The Fryer, and the Nunne |
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for as many as you please,
longways |
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mms pages 65 and 66 |
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Playford
version: none |
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Music: |
St Cecilia, Volume 1; Country Dances by the Broadside
Band |
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"One Misty Moisty Morning" - Parcel
of Rogues by Steeleye Span; Lads & Lasses by the City Waites |
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Intro Figure,
Part A |
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1: |
Lead forward [a double] |
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2: |
Fall back [a double] |
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3-4: |
That again |
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Intro Figure,
Part B |
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1: |
Everyone set (step left,
step right) to their partner, advancing as they do |
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2: |
Fall back [a double] |
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3-4: |
Turn your partner all the
way around, everyone face forward |
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Intro Figure,
Part C (the music starts over) |
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1: |
Men lead up [a double] |
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2: |
Men turn single |
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3: |
Women lead up [a double]
("as high as they") |
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4: |
Women turn single |
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Intro Figure,
Part D |
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1: |
Everyone set (step left,
step right) to their partner, advancing as they do |
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2: |
Fall back [a double] |
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3-4: |
Turn your partner all the
way around, everyone face forward |
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Intro Figure,
Part E (the music starts over) |
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1: |
Men lead down [a double] |
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2: |
Men turn single |
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3: |
Women lead down [a double] |
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4: |
Women turn single |
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Intro Figure,
Part F |
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1: |
Everyone set (step left,
step right) to their partner, advancing as they do |
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2: |
Fall back [a double] |
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3-4: |
Turn your partner all the
way around, everyone face forward |
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Figure 1(?),
Part A |
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1: |
Man 1 and man 2 fall back
(from their partner) [a double] |
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2: |
Man 1 and man 2 turn single |
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3: |
Woman 1 and woman 2 fall
back [a double] |
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4: |
Woman 1 and woman 2 turn
single |
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Figure 1(?),
Part B |
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1-2: |
Men change places with the
women [in two doubles] |
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3: |
Man 1 and man 2, woman 1
and woman 2, change places along the set [in a double] |
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4: |
Menand women change places
back to their side of the set [in one double] |
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[And so on:] |
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The description of this
dance (and all dances) ends here, but we can assume from the Playford version
that the progressive part continues on until everyone is back in place. |
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Comparison to
the Playford version (1st to 18th editions) |
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Part of the intro figure (a
very small part, as it turns out) matches exactly with the Playford version,
and as far as we can tell, the first progressive figure also matches
exactly. We don't know whether there
is another figure (there are certainly enough cases in this mms of
abbreviated dances), but from what we can see, these are identical. |
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Conclusion: |
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The super-extended intro
figure, with the "set, and fall backe, turn your partner around"
coda to each individual section, is a strange attenuation of the much simpler
and more direct Playford version. There
is no such stretching of the actual progressive figure, which makes me wonder
why there was such an emphasis on the actions in the introduction. |
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But extended or not, it is
an interesting addition to the dance (not to mention making the dance
actually viable despite its abrupt ending).
It would also seem to be an explicit definition of an alternative to
setting and turning - setting and falling back. I take the instruction to work as I've
written above because of the structure of the music, though I could be wrong. |
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I wonder, though, whether
there are other instances of the same in the preceeding dances. |
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