MUTUAL LOVE to tune for 'The Flight'
A triple minor dance from Thompson, Twenty Four Country Dance, 1777.
Blue Barnes p. 83, Apted
Modern versions are duple, because 3s do nothing.
Key C, Meter 6/8


Easiest version

A1 1-4 the two left file people take hands and, #1 in the lead, orbit the two 
       people in the right file, returning home.  (Have to hustle).
   5-8 Partners 2h turn once round. [Recommended alternate, halfway and fall back]

A2: The other two people orbit - #1 in the lead if on the left side, #2 if on the right
    Partners turn to own side and open to sidelines


B1:  Right hand star, left hands back.

B2:  1-2 1s down the center 
     3-4 cloverleaf turn single (down and away) to face up
     5-6 lead back
     7-8 cast off

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APTEDISH/GARDENISH


A1: 1-4: Top two men, holding hands, M1 in the lead, orbit the top two women while 
         women go forward and back to accommodate.
    5-8: Partners two-hand turn.

A2: Same again with women doing what men did.


B1:  1s and 2s  right hands across 4 and left hands back again while 3s do
     nothing

B2:  In skater's hold 1s lead down thro' the 3.d cu. (or next 2s) and cast up 
     into the middle then lead thro' the 2.d and cast off to finish in the 
     middle.

(APTED's B2:  1s and 2s four changes of R&L and 1s slip down)

(Reg Battle's B2, which is a duple minor: 1s DTC&B&CO)

John Garden's notes:

The dance's name possibly encouraged the P&P choreographer & director to use it
as Jane and Bingley's first dance. Apted matched the dance 'Mutual Love' to a
tune which Thompson had go to 'The Flight'. The Apted book also changed the
dance from triple minor to duple minor (the 3s not getting much dancing in the
original) and P&P followed Apted in this respect. P&P did not, however, follow
the Apted editors on the B2, for where the Apted book has 1s and 2s do rights
and lefts, then has the 1s slip to the bottom and 2s cast up, the movie has 1s
simply lead down holding inside hand, then skip back and cast off. I have
chosen to go back to the original triple minor form, and gone back to the
original B2, which is that the 1s alone lead between 3s, cast back then lead up
between 2s and cast down. When going from the l.h. star into the lead down, 1s
may either switch to holding inside hands, as in the movie, or slide into l.h.
in l.h., r.h. in r.h. skaters promenade hold, as Thomas Wilson favours. As
Wilson also recommends in his Analysis of Country Dancing when the M are going
around the W in A1, the later may choose to advance (with 4 steps) then retire
(with 4 steps). While the W go around, the M may do as the W did.