3: Tenn Pounde |
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longways (?), the more the
merrier |
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mms pages 5 and 6 |
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Playford
version: from 4th edition to 16th edition. |
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Music: |
Track 2 (4th in the medley)
of The Food of Love by various artists - the tune seems to be AAB, where A=8
beats and B=16 beats. How that works
with what is below I do not know. |
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Part 1 |
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Verse 1, Part A |
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Lead up [a double] |
2: |
[Fall back a double] |
Verse 1, Part B |
1: |
Lead up [a double] |
2: |
[Fall back a double] |
Chorus 1 |
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"Fall down presently
into the middle of all the rest, with your lady hand in hand" - so,
first couple leads the others down the middle of the set? But how far? |
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"and then round softly
(or as you please) hand in hand" - perhaps everyone circles
slowly/softly (or maybe faster/harder)? |
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"and then they" -
here the instructions vanish, cut off abruptly. |
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Part 2 |
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Verse 2, Part A |
1-2: |
Side [left to line up right
shoulders] |
Verse 2, Part B |
1-2: |
Side [right to line up left
shoulders] |
Chorus 2 |
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"and the same
agayne" - so the chorus does not change.
But what comprises the full chorus? |
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Part 3 |
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Verse 3, Chorus
3 |
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"And soe the 3d
time" - but repeat what? |
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"and if you please
each doe his part" - which seems to be more of an informal ending
phrase, rather than an instruction for continuing the dance. |
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Comparison to
the Playford version (version 1, 4th to 16th
editions) |
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Version 1 of Ten Pound Lass
is a longways for 8 with the last two couples improper. This is a "for as many as will"
dance, and I'm not even sure that it isn't a huge circle dance, rather than a
line dance. |
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None of the choreography
matches at all, not verse nor chorus (or at least what we know of the
chorus). |
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I can't say that this is a
match to Version 1 of Ten Pound Lass. |
Comparison to
the Playford version (version 2, 17th and 18th editions) |
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Version 2 of Ten Pound Lass
is a for as many as will virus-progressive with only one figure, but this
figure involves 2 couples at a time going through each other in just about
every permutation possible. |
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As such, it doesn't seem as
if it matches this dance (as much as we know of it), so I wouldn't say that
these are the same dance either. |
Conclusion: |
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There seems to be something
wrong in the manuscript. Page 5, which
contains the beginning of the dance, has a large blank space at the end,
which is unusual. The last bit of the
last sentence is obscured, but |
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the phrase "they
the(n?)" implies something more to come.
However, page 6 begins with a section marker, not the continuation of
the sentence. The dance instructions are
therefore incomplete. |
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However, this dance doesn't
seem to be any kind of match to "Ten Pound Lass" of any version
from Playford. It seems to be a
totally different dance entirely. |
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