Playford's Progeny

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====== Harlequin in the Mud ======

Found in Johnson, ~1742\\
Interpreted by Andrew Shaw 2017.\\
Longways, duple minor proper\\
Tune: Harlequin in the Mud 
<code>
A1 1-8 1st cpl. cross R. and turn R. to face down, then 1st man goes down outside 
       2nd wo., back up the middle and turns out into his ptn.'s place, as 1st woman 
       goes down the middle and back up outside 2nd man into her ptn.'s place.
A2 1-8 2nd cpl. cross L. and turn L. to face up, then 2nd man goes up outside 1st 
       man, back down the middle and turns out into his ptn.'s place, as 2nd woman
       goes up the middle and back down outside 1st wo. into her ptn.'s place.
B1 1-2 Ptns. facing, 1st cpl. slip down into 2nd place, 1st man down the middle, 1st 
       wo. down the outside, as 2nd cpl. slip up into 1st place, 2nd man up the 
       outside, 2nd woman up the middle, then 
   3-8 Ptns. facing, R. k L. 3 changes (4 steps per change).
B2 1-4 1st man and 2nd woman (2nd cnrs.) cross R, then 1st woman g 2nd man cross R. 
   5-8 Ptns. 2-hand turn once round.</code>
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hypr-8cdIIg\\
Note:\\
The track of the active cpl. in the A figure should be curved. Because the woman's initial turn is longer 
than the man' s, she will be slightly behind her ptn., he having his longer turn at the end of the figure.

Source: \\
[A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances Performed at Court, Bath, Tunbridge and all Publick 
Places ... Vol. II. 
London. Jno. Johnson, [c.1742]] 
The dance also appears, as Harlequin in the Mud, or Busby's Frolick, in Johnson's Caledonian Country 
Dances, 3d Edition, in Walsh's Caledonian Country Dances Book the Second and in the latter's Compleat 
Country Dancing-Master: Volume the Sixth, [1755]. 
(Copy: Johnson's Caledonian Country Dances, 3d Editionz)

Note on the dance: \\
The figure is that of the dance Ely Minster from The Dancing-Master ... The Tenth Edition, published by 
Henry Playford in 1698. The tune to this dance has the time signature 3.

Note on the tune: \\
The tune appears in two instrumental collections published by John Simpson in the mid 1740s, The 
Compleat Tutor for the Pastoral or ¹zo Bagpipe...wrote by Mr. J. Geoghegan and The Delightful Pocket 
Companion for the German Flute, in the latter as Harlequin Hermit, the title of a popular pantomime of 
1739.