14: A Mayden Fayre |
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longways for 6 or 8 |
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mms pages 24 to 26 |
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Playford
version: Once I Loved a Maiden Fair, or just
Maiden Fair, from 1st edition to 10th edition. |
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Music: |
Popular Music of the
Renaissance, by A Reasonable Facsimile |
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Intro Figure |
1-4: |
Lead up [a double and fall
back a double] twice |
5-8: |
Set [and turn] twice [left,
then right] |
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First Figure |
1: |
Man 1 advances toward and
sets to woman 2 |
2: |
Man 1 retreats back to
place |
3: |
Woman 1 advances toward and
sets to man 2 |
4: |
Woman 1 retreats back to
place |
5-6: |
Man 1 and woman 2 change
places [in two doubles] |
7-8: |
Woman 1 and man 2 change
places [in two doubles] |
Continue: |
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The pattern repeats, the
lead man starting, regardless of which side of the set he's on. If he happens to be in woman 2's place,
then he will advance and set to man 3, etc.
Everyone else will follow in standard virus-progressive manner, until
everyone is back where they started. |
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Second Figure |
1-4: |
Couples 1 and 2 meet [a
double] and fall back [a double] twice |
5: |
Couples 1 and 2 switch
places, couple 2 going between couple 1 |
6: |
Couples 1 and 2 switch
again, couple 1 going between couple 2 |
7: |
Couple 1 falls into couple
2's place around the outside of couple 2, who move up into couple 1's place |
8: |
Couple 1 turns each other
all the way around |
Continue: |
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The pattern repeats in
standard virus-progressive manner until everyone is back where they started. |
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Third Figure |
1-4: |
Couples 1 and 2 meet [a
double] and fall back [a double] twice |
5-6: |
All 4 take hands in a
circle and go halfway around until couple 1 is in couple 2's place |
7-8: |
Couples 1 and 2 turn their
partners, couple 1 going 1 1/2 around to return to proper sides of the set |
Continue: |
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The pattern repeats in
standard virus-progressive manner until everyone is back where they started. |
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Comparison to
the Playford version (1st to 10th editions) |
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This version is
functionally identical to its Playford successor, with a few relatively minor
changes in the exact mechanism of the figures. Both are virus-progressives, though this
version isn't the "for as many as will" as its Playford
counterpart, and while the first figures are identical, the others are
versions of each other. |
Conclusion: |
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Near enough to the same
dance to qualify as the same dance. |
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