Playford's Progeny

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====== Jaque Latin ======

Duple Minor Longways, 2/4 meter\\
Playford 1775\\
Hendrickson 1996\\
Recording: {{ ::music:jaque_latin-bnbc7-01.mp3.zip |}}

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A1  1-8  W1 hey with men, giving L-shoulder to M2 (end home)
A2  1-8  M1 repeat with women (R-shoulder to W2 begin)
B1  1-8  C1 cross passing R-shoulder, move down one place 
         (C2 move up), cross and move down one more place
B2  1-4  C1 lead up to below original C2 and set to them
    5-8  C1 lead up through C2 and cast to 2nd place
C1  1-4	 Facing on the diagonal, all set twice 
    5-8	 L-hands across once round
C2  1-4	 Facing on the diagonal, all set twice
    5-8	 R-hands across once round
</code>
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62E0XunihFM\\
[[private:ins_jaque_latin_p| Additional private notes ]]\\

The tune to which Willsim sets his dance was among the most popular of a
the 18th century and comes with a spectacular story, unearthed by Sean Donnelly 
in 1988. John Lattin (also Latton or Layton) was the scion of a wealthy
gentry family in Naas, County Kildare. 

John Lattin, according to a still surviving tombstone, died
at the age of twenty-one in 1731- not, in itself, remarkable in the 18th century,
Multiply attested tradition, however, suggests that John (Jack) Lattin accepted
a wager to dance the eight miles from Castle Browne back to his home at
Morristown. Lattin succeeded, and then collapsed and died of exhaustion
shortly thereafter. \\
As a family rhyme has it:

  * Jack Lattin dressed in satin 
  * Broke his heart of dancing 
  * He danced from Castle Browne .
  * To Morristown.