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- | ________________====== **The Farmer's Joy** ====== | + | ====== The Farmer's Joy ====== |
- | + | April 2012 English country dance by Joseph Pimentel \\ | |
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- | April 2012 English country dance by Joseph Pimentel | + | |
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- | longways, duple minor, proper | + | |
tune by Adam Broome, 114 bpm, 6/8, A major | tune by Adam Broome, 114 bpm, 6/8, A major | ||
+ | [[ :private:pins_farmers_joy | Private instrns]] | ||
+ | Recording: {{ ::music:farmers_joy-goldcrest.mp3.zip |}} | ||
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- | A1 1-8 1st Corners set forward, turn single to place, 2-hd turn | ||
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- | A2 1-8 2nd Corners set forward, turn single to place, 2-hd turn | ||
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- | B1 1-2 1s lead down the center | ||
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- | 3-4 1s wheel as a couple (W going forward, M backing up) | ||
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- | 5-6 1s cross up through the 2s to original places | ||
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- | 7-8 1s cast down while 2s move up | ||
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- | B2 1-4 Star R | ||
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- | 5-8 Star L</code> | ||
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- | Teaching Notes: | ||
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- | This is a simple dance which works well for new dancers, and the tune is so wonderfully joyful that | ||
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- | everyone seems to enjoy it. B1. I like each figure to fit two bar phrases, and for all four figures | ||
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- | to feel like one fluid movement. Though I do not often use the words "gate" and "half figure eight," | ||
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- | I think newer dancers begin to get the feel for those figures here without even knowing it. That is | ||
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- | intentional. B2. Encourage intermediate dancers to start the star L on their right foot, so the new | ||
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- | first corners have a nice transition into the setting at the top of A1BackgroundFor Bobbie Friedman, | ||
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- | our closest friend at Harbour Square, the Washington DC cooperative complex where we live. We met at | ||
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- | yoga class and mentioned going English country dancing on Wednesday nights in Glen Echo. Bobbie said | ||
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- | she had English dance friends from upstate New York. Gary and Rowena Roodman! She accepted our | ||
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- | invitation to join us on December 28, 2011, and soon became a Glen Echo regular. We are grateful for | ||
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- | her good company on the weekly ride, at our favorite sandwich shop along the way, and on the dance | ||
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- | floor.The dance also honors the great band Crowfoot, and takes its name from the tune by its | ||
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- | guitar player Adam Broome. At a contra dance one night, I asked them for a joyful, welcome-to- | ||
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- | the-party sort of tune, and "The Farmer's Joy" was their perfect selection. I liked it so much, I | ||
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- | wanted to use if for an English dance, and Adam graciously and happily agreed to the idea. For | ||
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- | several years now, I have enjoyed working with Crowfoot, marveling at the magic they create with | ||
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- | contra dancers, watching them develop into skillful English dance musicians, andjust being glad | ||
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- | I get to hang out with the cool kids. The tune is medleyed with another of Adam's tunes on the | ||
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- | Crowfoot CD As the Crow Flies.I had been thinking for a while about writing a dance for | ||
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- | Bobbie, but then realized that I had already written it. Figure eights often find their way | ||
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- | into our conversations, so the hidden half figure eight here is just perfect. Bobbie speaks of | ||
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- | the joy English dance has brought her and she grew up on a farm, so the name of the dance | ||
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- | already fit well, too.Copyright Notice: Joseph Pimentel 2014 | ||
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