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--- ins_duke_of_gloucesters_march [2020/03/25 02:49] – created - external edit 127.0.0.1
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 From John Garden:
 ====== Duke of Gloucester’s March ======
-midi
+midi\\
 Thomas Bray, 1699 \\
-Triple minor
+Triple minor\\
+Tune: Duke of Gloucester’s March
 <code>
 A      With 4 counts The First Man and second Woman turn to their right Hand
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        (finishing facing up) And so to the end.</code>
-music + \\
 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTv10yHqWqU
-<code>
-   This dance was presented by Thomas Bray in 1699 as ‘The Duke of Gloucester’s March,
+====== THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER'S MARCH ======
-   a New Country Dance’. It is very different from its namesake that appeared in Playford
-   in 1698. The above reconstruction differs from that of Nicholas Broadbridge
+A New Country Dance\\
-   Firstly, where others have chosen to play the tune quickly with repeats on the A and
+Thomas Bray 1699\\
-   B parts and to dance the dance slowly (with just two steps per bar), my preference is
+Pat Shaw 1968\\
-   to play the tune slowly without repeats and to march it briskly.
+Duple Miner longways
-   Secondly, where others have the figure dancers in the A part of the dance retrace their
-   steps with the former tail becoming the leader and pusher and the former leader the tail
+<code>
-   and ‘pushee’, I cannot but help but see in this figure a form of pousse
+A 1—8 1st Man, followed by his partner, goes a double out to his wall, both
-   My reconstruction above also differs from that of Diana Cruickshank's, in The Lover's Luck,
+      small cast left and face partner, straight poussette into 2nd couple's
-, for although Diana has the brisker walking I recommend, she goes for repeating both
+      place, and change places right shoulder with partner, while 2nd
-   the A and B part of the tune and fills out the dance with many more fi
+      Woman, followed by her partner, goes a Double out to her wall, both
-   Having seen the latest movie only once and not well enough saving all my observations
+      small cast left and face partner, straight poussette into 1st couple's
-   at the time, I may reserve my comments on exactly how the move treated this tune and
+      place, and change places right shoulder with partner.
-   dance till I have a chance to see it again.</code>
+A2 1—8 lst Woman, followed by her partner goes a double out to the Men's wall,
+       both small cast right and face partner, straight poussette into their
+       original places improper and change places right shoulder with partner,
+       while 2nd Man, followed by his partner, goes a double out to the Women's
+       wall, both small cast right and face partner, straight poussette into their
+       original places improper and change places right shoulder with partner.
+B1 l-4 lst Woman and 2nd Man, followed by their partners, cast right half
+       way round set.
+—8 1st Man and 2nd Woman, followed by their partners, cast left half
+       way round set, returning to places.
+B2 1—4 lst couple move forward into line facing Presence (Man behind Woman),
+       then 2nd couple the same, behind 1st couple (Man behind Woman).
+-8 Ist couple cast down into 2nd place, while 2nd couple move up and
+       turn single outwards (Man-left and Woman-right).</code>