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Woodstock Park

Source: Twenty Four New Country Dances for the Year:1711
Dedicated to. Henry Ld. Newport, by Nathaniell Kynaston.
London. J. Walsh, P. Randall, J. Hare, 1710
Form: Longways, duple minor (original: triple minor)
Recording: woodstock_park--039.mp3.zip
woodstock_park-persons_of_quality.mp3.zip

A1  1-4  Ptns. set R. & L. then 1st cpl. cast down into 2nd place,
         2nd cpl. Leading up.
Next movement we call HOOK in the OECDC
    5-8  1st cpl. half figure 8: 1st man down through the cpl. below,
         1st wo. up through the cpl. above, passing R. with other figuring
         dancer (sk. ch. s.)
A2  1-4  Ptns. set R. & L. then 2nd cpl. cast down to place, 1st cpl. Lead up.
    5-8  2nd cpl. half figure 8: 2nd man down through the cpl. below.
         2nd woman up through the cpl. above. passing R. with other figuring
         dancer (sk. ch. s.) 
         All improper.
Next movement we call ORBIT in the OECDC. This movement is like Mad Robin, but
         going forward all the time.
B   1-4  2nd cpl. standing still, 1st cpl. go R. shoulder round nbr.: WRONG!!! 1st man down
         the outside and back up the middle! 1st woman down the middle and back
         up the outside. into
    5-8  Hands 4. circle L. half round and open up the set.
    9-16  Ptns. facing. R. & L. 4 changes. with hands.

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGnTAZVI2oY

In 1705, Queen Anne granted the lands around Old Woodstock Castle, a former royal residence, to Sir John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough, the dazzling victor in so many campaigns in the War of the Spanish Succession: Ramillies, Blenheim, Lille, Oudenaarde, Malplaquet (many of these, like much of the conduct of the war and much of Marlborough’s career, commemorated in dances) in expression of the thanks of a grateful nation.
This stupefyingly grand building was to be built at public expense, but delays and cost overruns and unseemly personal and political squabbles at Court stopped all Crown monies and work at Blenheim in 1712, at which point the Marlboroughs went into self-imposed exile. Marlborough’s star shone again with the accession of George I, but he had little time to enjoy the house: Marlborough died in 1719, leaving his Duchess to fund and supervise the completion of the work in the mid-1730s.

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