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--- ins_dublin_bay [2020/01/08 05:29] – created - external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ ins_dublin_bay [2025/06/24 03:24] (current) – mar4uscha
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 or **We'll Wed and We'll Bed**\\
 as in "The Playford Ball"\\
+Bernard J. Bentley, 1962\\
 Recording: {{ ::music:dublin_bay--011.mp3.zip |}}\\
 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t_JvkLfx6Q&feature=youtu.be
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 Part  Bars  Description
- A    1    1's set, while crossing by the right shoulder
+A 1  1's set, while crossing by the right shoulder
-    1st woman turn 2nd man right-hand while
+  1st woman turn 2nd man right-hand while
 st man turn 2nd woman right-hand, 1's ending improper in first place
-    1st couple cross by left shoulder, go down outside 2nd couple and meet between them
+  1st couple cross by left shoulder, go down outside 2nd couple and meet
-           in center, 1st man facing 2nd man, 1st woman facing 2nd woman
+     between them in center, 1st man facing 2nd man, 1st woman facing 2nd woman
-    All arm right once around, and end in line across the hall, facing down
+  All arm right once around, and end in line across the hall, facing down
-B     2    In line with hands, fall back a double (up the hall), go forward a double (down the hall)
+B 2  In line with hands, fall back a double (up the hall), go forward a
-    Turning towards neighbor, change hands into a line facing up and fall back a double
+     double (down the hall)
-           (down the hall) and come forward a double (up the hall)
+  Turning towards neighbor, change hands into a line facing up and fall back
-     2's gate the 1's up & around to progressed places</code>
+     a double (down the hall) and come forward a double (up the hall)
+  2's gate the 1's up & around to progressed places</code>
+**DUBLIN BAY; or, WE'LL WED AND WE'LL BED**\\
+Bentley's note with this dance explains its changed name:
+«This dance was first worked out at 2 Summer School in
+Dublin--hence the title, which I have retained as it is now
+well established."
+**The Wonders in the Sun**, or **the Kingdom of the Birds**
+was premiered at the Queens Theatre in 1706, with a
+libretto by Thomas DUrfey and plenty of trick staging:
+It was a low-brow version of the immensely popular
+Purcellian opera and in many Ways anticipated The
+Beggar's Opera: The following from dialogue in Act 1:
+SHE: We'll wed, and we'll ‘bed, there's no more to
+be said, and I'II never go a milking more: