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====== Portabella ======

Published in Walsh in 1715. \\
Interpreted by Tom Cook in 1979. \\
Proper duple minor longways dance.\\
Recording: {{ ::music:portabella-_066-bn9sr12.mp3.zip |}}\\
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Xrd-9_rtk

<code>
A1 M1 followed by W1 cast down, round C2 (who may dance up, then down again)
   and back to place.
A2 M2 followed by W2 cast up, round C1 (who may dance down, then up again)
   and back to place.
   (The original uses W1 to lead the A2 figure. Also only C1 in B.)
B1  All set to partner, and turn single; Two hand turn partner.
B2  C1 cross and go below, while C2 change places and lead up;
    C2 cast down and cross up while C1 cross up and cast down (1/2 figure eights).
</code>

Graham Christian (2015) finds the tune appeared in the act music for Colley CIbber's play Love's Last Shift (1696) where it was described as a "Bore" i.e. a bourrée. It was composed, states Christian, by James Paisible [2] (1656-1721), a composer and virtuoso recorder player originally from France (where his first name was Jacques). Paisible also played oboe and bass viol, and composed for the theater, where he met and married Moll Davis, a singer and actress who had been the mistress of Charles II. He lived and worked in London for some forty years.

Sheet music:

{{::portabella-pfd2287.png?600|}}

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