31: Good Your Worship |
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for 100, longways |
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mms pages 62 to 65 |
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Playford
version: none |
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Music: |
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Figure intro,
Part A |
1: |
Lead forward [a double] |
2: |
Fall back [a double] |
3-4: |
That again |
Figure intro,
Part B |
1-2: |
Set [and turn single, left] |
3: |
Fall back [a double] |
4: |
Change places with your
partner [in a double] and face them again |
5-6: |
Set [and turn single,
right] |
7: |
Fall back [a double] |
8: |
Change places with your
partner [in a double] and face them again |
Main Figure |
1: |
Couple 1 take inside hands
and lead down the middle of the set (for some distance) |
2: |
Couple 1 cast off and turn
single |
3: |
Couple 1 take hands again
and lead down to the bottom of the set |
4: |
Couple 1 cast off and turn
single, then move into place at the bottom of the set |
Figure,
Finishing part |
1-2: |
Everyone set [and turn
single, left] |
3: |
Fall back [a double] |
4: |
Change places with your
partner [in a double] and face them again |
5-6: |
Set [and turn single,
right] |
7: |
Fall back [a double] |
8: |
Change places with your
partner [in a double] and face them again |
Repeat the B part of the music again: |
Woman 1 and man 2 switch
places |
1-8: |
Repeat all of the above
(yes, the mms says to set, fall back, change, that again, and again back into
your places (so 4 times total) |
And so on: |
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The entirety of the above
(from the lead up, "set, fall back, change" twice, top couple go to
the bottom of the set, "set, fall back, change" four times) happens
once for each couple in the dance (I.e. if the 100 people requested in the
beginning are dancing, then you'd do it all 50 times! |
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Note also that the lead
couple "if you please you may prolong every one his part, like as in
leading to the bottome, you may leade down but a little way, and then leade
up againe, and soe fall backe, and change between every couple", and the
author is so savvy that there is also the note: |
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"that always part of
the tune must be playd againe, beginning where you shall sett, and fall
backe, otherwise you cannot come right in your places" |
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Conclusion: |
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It looks as if the music is
structured as verse/chorus, with the A-music being an 8-count phrase
repeated, and the B-music being a 16-count phrase, many times repeated. The musicians obviously have to be quite
alert to what the dancers are doing so that they can repeat the various parts
as many times as required: |
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The A-part for the leading
down, and the B-part for the set, back, change sections. |
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This may make it very hard
to produce recorded music that is appropriate for teaching, but would make
for a very interesting and/or exciting live performance (that also testifies
to the ascendency of the dancers over the musicians …) |
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