Apollo and Daphne
Walsh, 1718. Interpreted by Andrew Shaw 2017
Longways, duple minor proper
Tune: Apollo and Daphne
AI 1-4 Facing centre, all set forward R. and L., then turn S. towards nbr. back to place, slightly more than once round, finishing facing out. A2 1-4 Nbrs. lead out (3 steps, turning on 3), lead back (3 steps) and turn S. away from nbr. to place (6 steps). BI 1-2 Ist cpl. cast down into 2nd place, 2nd cpl. meeting and leading up into Ist place. 3-4 Ist cpl. lead down through the cpl. below and cast back, 2nd cpl. moving up outside the cpl. above and leading back, Ist cpl. moving directly into 5-8 Ist cpl. figure 8 up through 2nd cp].. B2 1-4 Hands 4, circle L. once round. 5-6 Ptns. back-to-back. 7-8 Ptns. 2-hand turn once round.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgNj426SxNk
Note on the dance:
Apollo and Daphne and Flora and Phaon are the first two dances in this Walsh collection and form part
of a group of 15 dances, mostly named after the gods, goddesses, heroes and heroines of Greek and
Roman mythology. They are the only dances in this collection of 355 dances not previously published
in the 16 edition of The Dazzcing-Master by Pearson and Young in 1716 and are presumably the
dances referred to by Walsh in his Note at the foot of the Alphabetical Table that “The Masquerade
Dances are contain'd in the first Section” - having promised on his title page, “Great Variety of
Dances, both Old and New; Particularly Those performed at the several Masquerades”.
Eight of the dances are newly published and include the two dances in this book and Coridon and
Phillis in Rebecca King's Nearer & Farther {California, 2014, p.14); the other seven are from Nathaniel
Kynaston's annual collections for 1716 and 1717, all under new titles, and include The Laughing Vicar,
also in this book, and Love in a Hop-Yard, Kind and Easey and The Merry Conclusion from my earlier
books.
Note on the tune:
Lads and Lasses, published by William Pearson and John Young in The Dancing-Master … The Third
Volume, [1726], and by John Walsh in The New Country Dancing Master 3d Book, [1728], sets a different
figure to the same tune.