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====== Valentine's Day ======

Playford in 1683. \\
Interpreted by Pat Shaw in 1966.\\
Proper duple minor longways dance.
Recording: {{ ::music:valentines_day-walshb16-04.mp3.zip |}}
<code>
Once lead up as twos lead down turn alone lead back
Neighbors lead out turn alone lead back
First corners change RSH Second corners change RSH
with neighbor fullback come forward pass through
First corners meet and face away in the middle
Second corners meet face away
clap and turn single to place
Circle left once around</code>
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpg_WJlERl0

History:  \\ London publisher John Walsh picked up the tune and country dance for his Compleat Country Dancing Master, editions of 1718, 1731 and 1754. The dance “Valentine’s Day” is also recorded in the c. 1688 manuscript record (the second of two) of French Court dancing master André Lorin (now in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris), who visited England c. 1685 to collect English country dances in response to the growing interest stimulated by Madame la Dauphine. Later it was printed by Feuillet in 1700 in his treatise Choregraphie. Feuillet published subsequent editions of his work as the popularity of English country dancing took off on the Continent, several taken from The Dancing Master.

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