6: Ladyes Piller |
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longways for as many as you
please |
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mms pages 9 and 10 |
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Playford
version: from 1st to 8th editions. |
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Music: |
my own creation |
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Part 1 |
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Verse 1, Part A |
1: |
Lead up [a double] |
2: |
[Fall back a double] |
3-4: |
Set [and turn left] |
Verse 1, Part B |
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The verse instructions are
trailed by this intriguing instruction "once, or twice" - I suppose
it's perfectly okay for the musicians not to play the A part twice if they
don't want to! But assuming they do: |
1: |
Lead up [a double] |
2: |
[Fall back a double] |
3-4: |
Set [and turn right] |
Chorus 1, Part
A |
1-2: |
Everyone do a quarter-turn
to their right so that the men face down and the women face up. Then do two doubles to separate and then
arc, men right, women left, to end up
perpendicular to the starting position and a ways apart and to the
left |
3-4: |
Set [and turn left] |
Chorus 1, Part
B |
1-2: |
Take two doubles to change
places with your partner, ending up a normal distance apart and facing them
at the end (still perpendicular: "in the breadth … the room") |
3-4: |
Set [and turn right] |
Chorus 1, Part
C |
1-4: |
Man 1 takes is partner by
the left hand and leads her through all the rest, and then up into their
original starting places. Everyone
else follows, and the dancers will end up in their "right places"
by the end. |
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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 left] |
Verse 2, Part B |
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Unlike before, we are
explicitly told to "sides all twice, and sett twice" … |
1-2: |
Side [right to line up left
shoulders] |
3-4: |
Set [and turn right] |
Chorus 2, Part
A |
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"the woemen come
upwards, and the men doe goe downwards, contrary to that
afforesad". Since women going up
and men going down is what the previous instructions said, perhaps they
should end up on the 'contrary' side instead: |
1-2: |
Everyone do a quarter-turn
to their right so that the women face up and the men face down. Then do two doubles to separate and then
arc, men *left*, women *right*, to end up
perpendicular to the starting position and a ways apart and to the
right of it |
3-4: |
Set [and turn left] |
Chorus 1, Part
B |
1-2: |
Take two doubles to change
places with your partner, ending up a normal distance apart and facing them
at the end |
3-4: |
Set [and turn right] |
Chorus 1, Part
C |
1-4: |
Woman 1 takes her partner
by the right hand and leades him through all the rest, and then up into their
original starting places. Everyone
else follows, and they all "come into their places agayne" |
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Part 3 |
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After the separator, the
part 3 instructions are: "Doe the
first over agayne": |
Verse 3, Part A |
1: |
Lead up [a double] |
2: |
[Fall back a double] |
3-4: |
Set [and turn left] |
Verse 3, Part B |
1: |
Lead up [a double] |
2: |
[Fall back a double] |
3-4: |
Set [and turn right] |
Chorus 3, Part
A |
1-2: |
Everyone do a quarter-turn
to their right so that the men face down and the women face up. Then do two doubles to separate and then
arc, men right, women left, to end up
perpendicular to the starting position and a ways apart and to the
left |
3-4: |
Set [and turn left] |
Chorus 3, Part
B |
1-2: |
Take two doubles to change
places with your partner, ending up a normal distance apart and facing them
at the end |
3-4: |
Set [and turn right] |
Chorus 3, Part
C |
1-4: |
Man 1 takes is partner by
the left hand and leads her through all the rest, and then up into their
original starting places. Everyone
else follows, and the dancers will end up back where they started by the end. |
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Comparison to
the Playford version (version 1, 1st to 8th
editions) |
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Basically, these are the
same dances. The chief difference is
in the mechanism of the whole set of dancers moving, and the results thereof. |
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In Playford's version
(which in the contents of the 1st edition is called "Lady
Spillers"), everyone simply does two doubles "all to the left,
cross the room", rather than the uping and downing and arcing. |
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So, the result is that the
line does not turn perpendicular, but it ends up essentially the same. The difference in placement also dictates a
different way of returning to the start, but again - not fundamentally different. |
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The Playford version has
each chorus being identical (using the "as before" marker), which
equates with this version despite the different wording in the 2nd part that
ends up being exactly the same. |
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Lastly, we have the
possibility that the last verse is once again leading up and back, rather
than arming - not a huge difference, though it may well add fuel to the
"assumption of USA verses" fire. |
Conclusion: |
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Easily equivalent, and can
quite well be done to the same music (if only there were any recordings
available …) |
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As an extra note, we have
here the first instance of trying to equate "set" in Lovelace with
"set and turn" in Playford - if we use the same music, we have to
either stretch setting to take two measures, or assume setting and turning when
this is used in a verse (and, in this case, the chorus as well). |
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