Dafydd's Collection of

Playford's English Country Dances

Just a little experiment

Does this work? Lovelace MMS Workbook

 

Transcribed and, as noted, reconstructed, by Dafydd for the dancers of the East Kingdom's Barony of Bhakail (though not exclusively)

All dances from the 1651 edition, unless otherwise noted.


 

Adsons Saraband

3 couple, line

 

All a Mode de France

4 couple, line

 

All in a Garden Green

3 couple, line

 

Argeers

2 couples, facing

(This is the only 1st edition ECD that I'm fairly certain cannot work as written, though it is not the only one with errors in the manuscript)

A Soldier's Life

A line of as many as will

 

An Old Man is a Bed Full of Bones

A line of as many as will

 

Aye me, or the Symphony

4 couple, line

 

The Bath

A line of as many as will

 

Beggar Boy

3 couple, line

 

Black Nag

3 couple, line

(3rd Edition)

Blew Cap

3 couple, line

 

Boate Man

3 couple, line

 

Bobbing Joe

A line of as many couples as will

 

Bonny, Bonny Broome

4 couple, line

 

Cast A Bell

A line of as many couples as will

 

Cheerily and Merrily

4 couple, line

 

Chestnut

3 couple, line

 

Chirping of the Lark

4 couple, line

 

Chirping of the Nightingale

A line of as many couples as will

 

Confesse

6 people

 

The Country Coll

A line of as many couples as will

 

Cuckolds All A Row

2 couple, facing

 

Daphne

4 couples, line

 

Dargason

A column of men facing a column of the same number of women

 

Dissembling Love

3 couple, line

 

Drive the Cold Winter Away

A line of as many couples as will

 

Dull Sir John

4 couples in a square

 

Faine I Would, If I Could

4 couple, line

 

Fine Companion

4 couple, circle

 

Friar and the Nun

A line of as many couples as will

 

Gathering Peascods

A circle for as many couples as will

 

Glory of the West

2 couple, facing

"Fix" of the dance as commonly (formerly?) done - requires only a single repeat of the chorus (B) part.

Goddesses

A line of as couples as will

 

Gray's Inn Maske

4 couple, line

 

Greenwood

3 couple, line

 

Grimstock

3 couple, line

 

The Gun

A line of as many couples as will

 

Half Hannikin

A line of as many couples as will

 

Have At Thy Coat, Old Woman

A line of as many couples as will

 

The Health

4 couple, line

 

A Health to Betty

A line of as many couples as will

 

Heart's Ease

2 couple, facing

 

Hit and Miss

2 couple, facing

 

Hide Park

4 couple, square

 

Hockley in the Hole

A line of as many couples as will

 

If All the World Were Paper

4 couple, line

 

The Irish Lady, or Anniseed-water Robin

A line of as many couples as will

 

Irish Trot

A line of as many couples as will

 

Jack a Lent

3 couple, line

 

Jack Pudding

3 couple, line

 

Jenny Pluck Pears

3 couple, circle

 

Jog On

A line of as many couples as will

 

Kemps Jegg

3 couple, circle

 

Kettle Drum

4 couple, square

 

Lady Lie Near Me

A line of as many couples as will

 

Lady Spellor

4 couple, line

 

Lavena

A line of as many couples as will

 

The London Gentlewoman
or the Hemp-Dresser

A line of as many couples as will

 

Lord Carnarvon's Jig

4 couple, line

 

Lull Me Beyond Thee

4 couple, line

 

Mage On A Cree

4 couple, circle

 

The Maid Peeped Out at the Window
or The Frier in the Well

A line of as many couples as will

 

Maiden Lane

3 couple, line

 

The Merry Merry Milk Maids

A line of as many couples as will

 

Mill-field

4 couple, circle

This is my own version of the very boring "as many as will" Playford instructions

Mill-field
(the Playford version)

a circle of as many as will

 

The Milk Maid's Bob

A line of as many couples as will

 

Millison's Jig

3 couple, line

The properly period Black Nag, written to be done 3 times in a row ...

Mundesse

3 couple, circle

 

My Lady Cullen

A line of as many couples as will

 

New Boe Peep

A line of as many couples as will

 

The New Exchange

3 couple, line

 

New New Nothing

A line of as many couples as will

 

Newcastle

4 couple, square

 

The Night Peece

3 couple, line

 

Nonesuch

4 couple, line

This version fits the dance into 12 whole repeats and tweaks some minor points

Nonesuch (v2)

4 couple, line

This version follows the source much more closely than is the normal convention, and requires 15 repeats of the music to complete.

Nonesuch (v3)

4 couple, line

This version fixes an oversight in the previous version. It still requires 15 repeats of the music to complete.

The Old Mole

3 couple, line

 

Once I Loved a Maiden Fair

A line of as many couples as will

 

Parson's Farewell

2 couples, facing

 

Paul's Steeple

A line of as many couples as will

 

Paul's Wharfe

A line of as many couples as will

 

Peppers Black

4 couple, square

This is Sorcha's modified version of Playford's "as many as will" version

Peppers Black
(the Playford version)

a circle of as many as will

 

Petticoat Wag

A line of as many couples as will

 

Picking of Sticks

3 couple, line

 

Prince Rupert's March

4 couple, line

 

Punk's Delight

A line of as many couples as will

 

The Rose is White, the Rose is Red

A line of as many couples as will

 

Row Well Ye Marriners

A line of as many couples as will

 

Rufty Tufty

2 couple, facing

 

The Saraband

A line of as many couples as will

 

Saturday Night and Sunday Morn

A line of as many couples as will

 

Scotch Cap

3 couple, line

 

Shepheard's Holyday

3 couple, line

 

Skellemafago

A line of as many as will

 

The Slip

A line of as many as will

 

The Spanyard

4 couple, line

 

Spanish Jeepsie

4 couple, line

 

Staines Morris

A line of as many couples as will

 

Step Stately

3 couple, line

 

Stingo, or the Oyle of Barley

3 couple, line

 

St Martin's

2 couple, facing

 

Tom Tinker

A line of as many couples as will

 

Up Tails All

A line of as many couples as will

 

Upon a Summer's Day

3 couple, line

 

Wherligig

3 couple, line

 

The Whish

3 couple, line

 

Woodicock

3 couple, line

 

 



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