27: A Helth to Betty |
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longways for as many as you
please |
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mms pages 55 to 57 |
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Playford
version: from 1st edition to 18th edition. |
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Music: |
Popular Tunes in 17th
Century England, by the Broadside Band (with not enough repeats) |
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Part 1 |
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Verse 1, Part A |
1: |
Lead forward [a double] |
2: |
Fall back [a double] |
3-4: |
Set [and turn single, left] |
Verse 1, Part B |
1: |
Lead forward [a double] |
2: |
Fall back [a double] |
3-4: |
Set [and turn single,
right] |
Chorus 1 |
1-2: |
Couple 1 sides [left] with
each other |
3-4: |
Couple 1 turns each other
around [once and a half, in this case to be ready to continue the figure with
their opposite gender] |
Chorus 1,
repeated |
1-2: |
Man 1 sides [left] with
woman 2, woman 1 sides [left] with man 2 |
3-4: |
The people who sided turn
each other around [once and a half times, to progress the active couple] |
And so on: |
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The figure continues until
everyone is back in place. This is a
slightly different version of a virus-progressive figure, modified as
follows: at the top and bottom,
instead of sitting out to come back in as the other half of the figure, you
do the figure to switch sides (at the bottom, to return to proper sides, at
the top, to get ready to proceed down the set). |
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Part 2 |
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Verse 2, Part A |
1-2: |
Side [left to line up right
shoulders] |
3-4: |
Set [and turn single, left] |
Verse 2, Part B |
1-2: |
Side [right to line up left
shoulders] |
3-4: |
Set [and turn single,
right] |
Chorus 2 |
1: |
Couple 1 falls back [a
small double] |
2: |
Couple 1 slips down and
forward into couple 2's place |
3-4: |
Couple 1 turns each other
around |
And so on: |
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The figure continues like
this in virus-progressive format, until everyone is back in place |
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Part 3 |
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Verse 3, Part A |
1-2: |
Arm [left (right arms, walk
left)] |
3-4: |
Set [and turn single, left] |
Verse 3, Part B |
1-2: |
Arm [right (left arms, walk
right)] |
3-4: |
Set [and turn single,
right] |
Chorus 3 |
1: |
Couple 1 falls back [a
double] from each other |
2: |
Couple 1 comes back
together into couple 2's place, but on the inside (explicitly not the
outside) of couple 2 |
3-4: |
Couple 1 turns all the way
around |
And so on: |
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The figure continues like
this in virus-progressive format, until everyone is back in place |
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Comparison to
the Playford version (1st to 18th editions) |
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This dance is exactly the
same as in Playford, and in Playford the dance endured until the end of the
first volume in 1728. This version is
slightly less specific about how the motions are accomplished, but every movement
is identical within that looser framework and only points up how Playford
regimentalized ECDs when he published his books. |
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The only substantive
difference is that the second and third figures start out the same, while
Playford's version has the second figure starting out with the active couple
meeting, then backing away before casting off. |
Also of note: |
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As a whole, this dance is
very interesting in that the first chorus is an overly-involved
virus-progressive figure, while the other two choruses are overly-simplified
in that they don't actually involve the "inactive" couple at all,
just asking the "active" couple to move around in a specific way
with the "inactive" couple getting out of their way. |
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