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--- ins_thady_you_gander [2014/07/15 21:51]
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+++ ins_thady_you_gander [2023/12/25 03:18] (current)
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-THADY YOU GANDER
+====== THADY YOU GANDER ======
 English Folk Dance LS E-15
+Contra or longways sets of four couples\\
-Contra or longways sets of four couples
+Meas. (2 counts per meas.; i.e., 1-8 = 16 counts) \\
+Recording: {{ ::music:thady_you_gander--005.mp3.zip |}}
-DANCE
-Meas. (2 counts per meas.; i.e., 1-8 = 16 counts)
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 -24 M1 lead women around men's line
 -40 C1 strip willow to bottom, starting with partner
-   Repeat for each of the three remaining couples.</code>
+   Repeat for each of the three remaining couples.
+</code>
+Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oubN3G71YNc
+Simple but popular country dance with its origin possibly in Ireland. The tune is Irish and known from at least the 1820s.\\
+It seems to have been a popular folk dance collected from areas of Scotland in the early 20th C.
+The ‘gander’ reference is derogatory, intimating Thady is of ‘loose character’, a flirt, and this is represented in the dance when the top lady beckons the men to follow her in a merry dance. The dance also includes a simple strip the willow finale. \\
+(It was erroneously associated with ‘The Irish Trot’ of the turn of the 17th/18th century and recorded as danced at a wedding at the ‘Rocks’ in Sydney in 1803, but it is now known the Irish Trot is a totally different dance of triple minor progression as distinct from the simple more modern country dance progression of Thady.)

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