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ins_jacob_halls_jig [2019/10/31 13:36]
nashjc [In Samuel Pepys diary]
ins_jacob_halls_jig [2023/10/26 02:42] (current)
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 ====== Jacob Hall's Jig ====== ====== Jacob Hall's Jig ======
  
-Note the Pat Shaw simplified version. +Note the Pat Shaw simplified version.\\
 Playford, //The Dancing Master//, 1695-1728.\\ Playford, //The Dancing Master//, 1695-1728.\\
 Cecil Sharp, //The Country Dance Book, Part IV//, 1916.\\ Cecil Sharp, //The Country Dance Book, Part IV//, 1916.\\
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    5-8 Ones lead up and cast down to progressed place.    5-8 Ones lead up and cast down to progressed place.
 </​code>​ </​code>​
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 +Video: https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?​v=NuMhi6z_B4E&​t=91s
  
 Cecil Sharp added the turns with partners in A1 and A2.\\ Cecil Sharp added the turns with partners in A1 and A2.\\
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 ==== In Samuel Pepys diary ==== ==== In Samuel Pepys diary ====
  
-In one sentence, we get mention (with perhaps corrupted spelling)+In one sentence ​in the entry for August 29, 1668 (England was until 1752 on the 
 +Julian calendar), we get mention (with perhaps corrupted spelling)
 of no less than three dance titles. of no less than three dance titles.
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- 
  
 ''​So I out, and met my wife in a coach, ''​So I out, and met my wife in a coach,
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 seeing, and mightily followed, and so home and to the office, and then seeing, and mightily followed, and so home and to the office, and then
 to bed.'' ​ to bed.'' ​
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 +Jacob Hall [2] was a 17th century tight-rope dancer and acrobat whose agile performances delighted diarist Samuel Pepys and others of the era. He was a some-time lover of the mistress of Charles II, Lady Castlemain, the Duchess of Cleveland, who took revenge on the king for neglecting her.
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 +https://​tunearch.org/​wiki/​Annotation:​Jacob_Hall%27s_Jig_(2)
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