User Tools

Site Tools


ins_shepherds_holiday

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Next revision
Previous revision
ins_shepherds_holiday [2019/04/14 16:26]
nashjc created
ins_shepherds_holiday [2024/01/31 03:43] (current)
mar4uscha
Line 1: Line 1:
 ====== Shepherd'​s Holiday ====== ====== Shepherd'​s Holiday ======
  
-Video: +Video: ​https://​vimeo.com/​78835324\\ 
-Recording: ​+Recording: ​{{ ::​music:​shepherds_holiday-068-bn12pb03.mp3.zip |}}\\ 
 +{{ ::​music:​shepheards_holyday_or_labour_in_vaine-bsbnd02.mp3.zip |}}\\ 
 +Longways for Six; in three parts (1st Ed., 1650).\\ 
 +Adapted by Cecil Sharp in 1912
  
 <​code>​ <​code>​
 +First Part.
 +A1  1–4  All lead up a double and fall back a double to places (r.s.).
 +    5–6  Partners change places (r.s.).
 +A2  1–4  All lead down a double and fall back a double to places (r.s.).
 +    5–6  As in A1.
 +B1  1–2 M1 and W1 slip in front of M2 and W2 respectively.
 +    3–4 M3 and W3 slip behind M2 and W2 respectively.
 +    5–8 M1, followed by M2 and M3, casts off to his left and 
 +         moves round in a circle to his place; while 
 +         W1, followed by W2 and W3, casts off to her right 
 +         and does the same (skip?).
 +B2  1–2 M3 and W3 slip in front of M2 and W2 respectively.
 +    3–4 M1 and W1 slip behind M2 and W2 respectively.
 +    5–8 M3, followed by M2 and M1, casts off to his right and 
 +         moves round in a circle to his place; while
 +         W3, followed by W2 and W1, casts off to her left 
 +         and does the same (skip?).
 +Second Part.
 +A1  1–4 Partners side (r.s.).
 +    5–6 Partners change places (r.s.).
 +A2  1–6 All that again to places.
 +B1  1–4 Men take hands, move forward a double and 
 +         fall back a double to places; ​
 +         while the women do the same (r.s.).
 +    5–8 Men hands-three;​ while women do the same.
 +B2  1–4 Same as in B1.
 +    5–8 Men hands-three,​ facing outward; while women do the same.
 +Third Part.
 +A1  1–4 Partners arm with the right.
 +    5–6 Partners change places (r.s.).
 +A2  1–4 Partners arm with the left.
 +    5–6 Partners change places (r.s.).
 +B1  1–2 M1 man changes places with W2 (r.s.).
 +    3–4 M2 changes places with W1 (r.s.).
 +    5–8 M3 and W3 cross over and cast up to places of W1 and M1 
 +         ​respectively (skip?)
 +B2  1–2 W3 changes places with M2 (r.s.).
 +    3–4 W2 changes places with M3 (r.s.).
 +    5–8 W1 and M1 cross over and cast up to places (skip?).
 </​code>​ </​code>​
 +Video: https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?​v=aW9uMOVJPJk&​t=2s\\ 
 +The Shepherd'​s Holiday. The alternate title “Labour in Vain” was also the name of an old tavern in England, whose sign was “illustrated by a woman with a Negro child in a tub, whom she is endeavouring to scour white” (Hackwood, 1909).
ins_shepherds_holiday.1555259194.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019/04/14 16:26 by nashjc