San Mateo Masonic Temple
October 24, 1998
The dances are given in alphabetical order, which is not how it will fall out at the ball. Some of these dances may be omitted because of time pressure or because it seems to better suit the needs of the dancers. Pray do not construe this page as a basis for arranging your partners in advance, nor as a commitment that all these dances will in fact be be done.
The instructions given are brief reminders, and will probably be inadequate to get you dancing if you have not done country dance before. You need not have these dances memorized to enjoy the ball; all dances will be taught briefly there.
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AURETTI'S DUTCH SKIPPER
(longways duple minor, Rutherford, 1756)
A1: 1-4: 1s lead through 2s, cast up to place
5-8: 1s turn two hands
A2: 1-4: 2s lead through 1s, cast down to place
5-8: 2s turn two hands
B1: 1-8: 1st corners turn two hands; 2nd corners turn two hands
B2: 1-4: Partners set twice
5-8: Three changes of rights and lefts, starting with partner.
DOVER PIER
(1791, PB, Longways Duple, Barnes, 2 flats)
A1 1-4: Partners set twice
5-8: Right hand star half way; fall back into opposite place.
A2 1-8: Repeat A1 with left hands.
B1 1-4: 1s cross and go down outside into 2s place while 2s move up
5-8: 1s turn two-hands once and a half.
B2 1-8: 4 changes of R & L, starting with partner.
DRAPERS' GARDENS
longways duple, in PB, music in Barnes
Key G, Time 3/4 (tune 1799)
A1 1-4: 1st corners set forward and turn single
5-8: 1st corners turn two hands once around
A2 1-8: 2nd corners the same.
B: 1-2: Women face and turn two hands half-way.
3-4: Men the same.
5-8: Circle four half-way and fall back into lines
9-12: Two changes of rights and lefts, starting with partner
13-16: 1s lead up through 2s and cast to progressed place.
THE DRESSED Ship (PB, Apted)
Duple minor longways, music in Barnes
A1: 1st corners advance setting, turn single, turn two hands.
A2: 2nd corners the same.
B1: 1-4 1s cast to 2nd place - on 3d measure 2s lead up to 1s place.
5-6 All set right and left to partner
7-8 "Turn the lady under" - goes under right arm, CCW
B2: 1-4 1s cast up, 2s lead down as above
5-6 Set R&L
7-8 1s travel down the center turning the lady under; 2s short cast up.
THE DUKE OF KENT'S WALTZ (music 1801, or thereabouts)
The Playford Ball
Longways Duple Minor, Proper - music in Barnes
A1: Right hands across, left hands back.
A2: 1s take two hands, take two slow chasses down, two up, and cast for
four, 2s moving up.
B: Partners take right in right, balance, and change places turning the lady
under. Repeat to progressed place.
All turn the right diagonal person by the right hand; turn partner by the
left all the way round.
KNOLE PARK. d: 1809, m: 1788
Longways duple minor
Key D, Time 2/4; from Playford Ball
A1: 1-4: Circle four hands once around
5-6: 1st corners change
7-8: 2nd corners change
A2: Repeat A1 to place
B1: 1-8: 1s down the center and back, cast to second place, 2s moving up.
B2: 1-8: WHOLE poussette CCW, 1st man pushing.
THE NORTHDOWN WALTZ (PB, KH, Barnes, 1820)
(Original sez 2nd corners, PB sez first corners, I go with 2nd corners)
A1: 1-4: 2nd corners take right hands, balance forward and back,
then change places.
5-8: 1st corners the same.
A2: 1-8: Repeat above to places.
B: 1-8: 1s lead down center, lead back to 2nd place, 2s moving up.
C: 1-8: In ballroom position, couples waltz around each other CCW (LOD),
exactly once, to end progressed. [Except that we shall do as the
original publisher suggested, and do a full poussette, not a
shocking waltz.]
THE PLEASURES OF THE TOWN
Tune: Grimstock
Source: Wilson via Cathleen Myers
Longways duple
A: RH*, LH* back
B: 1s down the middle and back and cast off into second place
B: Hands four, slipping circle left, then right.
SHREWSBURY LASSES (PB) 3-couple longways
music in Barnes
A1: First man does step and honor (however he pleases) to second woman, then
turn two hands.
A2: First woman does the same with second man.
B1: First couple cast off to second place, second couple moving up,
then circle 4-hands with the third couple, leave that couple,
skip around the ends (man up, woman down) to meet at the middle and
turn two hands halfway.
B2: Third couple casts off and repeats the above action with the second
couple (still man up, woman down). Dance starts again with the new first
couple.
SIR ROGER DE COVERLY (unimaginable antiquity)
Four - Six couple long ways set
Part 1: First corners forward and back
Second corners the same
Turn by right
Turn by left
Turn two hands
Turn no hands
Part 2: (1s slip down the set and back, or not)
"Lace the Boot"
1s slip or polka to the top.
Part 3: All face up. 1s cast, the rest follow.
[1s - don't go below the end of the set!]
1s meet at the bottom, make an arch, others duck under to get to
the top.
DORSET TRIUMPH (CDM) duple-minor longways proper
Tune in CDM, not in Barnes. Don't confuse with any other Triumph.
A1: SECOND CORNERS set and turn single to place.
A2: FIRST CORNERS the same.
B1: Second man takes first woman down the center, holding right hands,
while first man casts out and walks down outside the men's line.
End facing up at the end of the phrase.
B2: M2 passes W1 in front from his left to his right; M1 takes W1s left hand;
men join inside hands behind W1. (Arch is from a different version,
but we can do it anyway.) "Bring her back in triumph"; M1 puts her back
in place with a left hand turn.
C: Everyone leads partner down by the right hand, turn lady under, and
bring them back. First couple casts off while second couple to first
place.
THE WAGGONER (three-couple longways, easy, 1793)
Wright's Humours, volume 1; done at Poldark picnic
A1: Three women, led by 1st woman, dance (skip-change) round the three men
and back to place. (Take hands in line.)
A2: Three men the same
B1: 1st couple lead down (walking), turn alone, dance (skip-change)
back up to the top of the set and cast to bottom, 2s and 3s moving up.
B2: slipping circle six, left and right
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