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===[https://www.cdss.org/ Country Dance and Song]=== ...eople in building and sustaining vibrant communities through participatory dance, music, and song traditions that have roots in English and North American c

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19th Century Dances
...ze swept Europe and the [[Schottische dance|Schottische]] and [[Varsoviana Dance|Varsoviana]] followed close beside. ...C turned into the 19thC, the 'Long Rooms' were still host to the [[Country Dance]], the [[Minuet]] and [[Gavotte]].

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Dance annotation guide
...is often contentious, but for the purposes of the barn, country or ceilidh dance, a very simple description will suffice. There will be some moves which wil '''Dance Title''' plus the ''version'' (county version, caller's variant, identify

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Regions
There might be a regular country dance or a folk night! There might be a Morris, Sword or Molly Dance team to watch or even join!

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User:Dancingfiddle
...he Elftones and Copious Notes, and play often in ensembles with many other dance musicians.

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File:Dusky Night.jpg
Transcription of the Dusky Night dance tune from Thompson's 200 Country Dance tunes Vol. 4

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20th Century Dances
...still looked back to [[John Playford]] for the definitive body of English dance. ...50s, spearheaded by the [[EFDSS]], followed in the 1980s by an new English dance movement which was spawned in the musical seed bed of the folk clubs and fl

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Hokey Cokey
...dy (composer of Teddy-Bears' Picnic, who died in Cheltenham) and swept the country in the 1940's. ([[Hugh Rippon]]) [[Category: Dance]]

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Elizabeth Canning
...published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume 2 [[Index to Thompson's 200 Series|Index]] ...ished by [[Peter Thompson]] in one of his [[Index_to_Thompson's_200_Series|dance collections]]

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Nathaniel Kynaston
...arber has an index of tunes and PDFs of the following British Library tune/dance books on his [https://nick-barber.net/?page_id=303&fbclid=IwAR0QU0kEYiRTkf- ...For the Year 1711 With proper new Tunes, & Figures, or Directions to each Dance.

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File:KittyFisher.jpg
Transcription of the dance tune 'Kitty Fisher' from Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume 2

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File:E Canning.jpg
Tune to the dance Elizabeth Canning, published in Thompson's 200 Country Dances volume 2

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File:RutherfordSelect 1772.txt
Twelve Country Dances for the year 1772 For Harpsichord with Figured Bass and Dance instruction

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The Social Dances of the 19th Century(Book)
...e of information about the dances that now form part of the modern country dance repertoire. : The Story of the Minuet; The Early Waltz; Country Dance, Contredanse, Cotillon

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Take 6 Transcription Programme: The Butterworth Archive, MS 2
'''GB/2/1 Hey Diddle Dis (Filkins Morris Dance)''' '''GB/2/2 Princess Royal (Filkins Morris Dance)'''

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THOMPSON; ''24 Country Dances for the Year 1805'' With figures to each dance as they are performed at Court, Bath and all Publick Assemblys; London Thom

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Mount Edgcomb
...ouse, the former home of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe, set within 865 acres Country Park on the Rame Peninsula, South East Cornwall. [[Category:Dance]]

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Balance the Straw
Country dance and morris tune, also known as 'Balance A Straw' and 'Balancy Straw'. [[Category:Morris Dance]]

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Cliff Hornpipe
*[[Bob Cann]] - [[West Country Melodeon (LP)]] / [[Proper Job]] - under the title ''[[Uncle George’s Hor ...ulwer|Walter]] and [[Daisy Bulwer]] - [[English Country Music (CD)|English Country Music]] - played in 6/8

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File:Preston 24 1805.PDF

...Country Dances for the Year 1805, with proper tunes and directions to each dance as they are performed at Court, Bath and all Public Assemblys. update--this

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English Folk Dance Society
...igned. The journal was replaced in 1932 by the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.

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EDS Vol 44 No 2
===BLACK COUNTRY STORIES=== Roy Palmer relates some of the outrageous exploits of the Balck Country heroes Aynoch and Ayli (Enoch and Eli)

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Font Whatling
* The Earl Soham Slog - Step Dance And Country Music From Suffolk ‎(LP) Topic Records 12TS374 1978 ''Untitled Tunes and * Rig-A-Jig-Jig. Dance Music Of The South Of England. ‎(CD, Album, Comp) Topic Records TSCD659 1

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Talk:To Find a Teacher
If you are a teacher of country dancing and would like to train as a square dance caller, I am happy to provide information. To sum up what is required: ...about a third of this will already be familiar to you if you teach English country dancing;

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Thomas Cahusac
* 1758 Twenty-four Country Dances for the year 1785... Thos Cahusac (Mitchell Library, Glasgow, M9200) * 1785 Twenty-four Country Dances for the year 1785... T.Cahusac, 196 Strand and Messrs. Ludlow & Wain

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Fantocini,The
...published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume 3 [[Index to Thompson's 200 Series|Index]] The dance was also known in America and is mentioned on the [http://www.colonialmusic

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Lady Caroline Stanhopes birthday
...published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume 2 [[Index to Thompson's 200 Series|Index]] ...named Caroline. The daughter died in in 1767 aged 19. The birthday of the dance title could have been for either of these characters. In time, more detaile

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Proper Job
...1970s (including some from the Topic LP [[West Country Melodeon (LP)|West Country Melodeon]], through to 9 tracks recorded by [[John Howson]] two years befor #[[Cross Hands Country Dance]] / [[Uncle George’s Jig]] / [[Uncle Jim’s Waltz]] / [[Kestor Rock]]

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Goose and Gridiron,The
...published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume 3 [[Index to Thompson's 200 Series|Index]] [[Category:Dance]]

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Polkas
...ng with the Waltz and the Quadrille, in sweeping the Country Dance off the dance floors of England and elsewhere.

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Kitty Fisher
...published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume 2 [[Index to Thompson's 200 Series|Index]]

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Oscar Woods
* Billy Bennington, Percy Brown, Harold Covill, Oscar Woods (2) - English Country Music From East Anglia ‎(LP, Album) Topic Records 12TS229 1973 ...The South Of England TSCD 659 1999 ''Volume 9 of The Voice of The People. Dance music of the South of England. An anthology edited by REG HALL.''

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EDS Vol 47 No 2
A North Country song and dance uncovered by Joan Flett. ===RING O'BELLS - COUNTRY DANCE BAND===

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George Hepple
By the 1920s he was a member of the local dance band, playing mainly country dance music.

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Frank Purslow
...er parts of the country as leader and accordion player of the Bampton Barn Dance Band. :He was such an authority that the English Folk Dance and Song Society was preparing to award him the Gold Badge, its highest acc

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Percy Brown
*[[English Country Music from East Anglia (LP)|English Country Music from East Anglia]], Topic LP 12TS229 *[[Rig-a-Jig-Jig|Rig-a-Jig-Jig: Dance Music of the South of England]], Topic CD TSCD659 (*)

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John Mason
Cecil Sharp collected many country dance and morris tunes of him.

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Historical Resources
...clear, if at all, where the demarcation between 'folk dance' and 'historic dance' lies, and the study of one perforce includes the other. For a bibliography of the history of social dance have a look at this list on the [http://socialdance.stanford.edu/powers/Web

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Harper's Frolick
...n [[Peter Thompson|Peter Thompson's]] [[Index to Thompson's 200 Series|200 Country Dances Vol,3]] ''One More Dance and then...'' '''New Victory Band''' TOPIC RECORDS TS382 (1978) republish

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Ned Pearson
Various - Ranting & Reeling. Dance Music Of The North Of England. ‎(CD, Album, Comp) Topic Records TSCD669 1 Various - Troubles They Are But Few. Dance Tunes & Ditties. ‎(CD, Album, Comp) Topic Records TSCD664 1998

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User:Colin Hume
...nisation) which was set up to run training courses for EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society). ...English Dance & Song”, containing his thoughts on many aspects of the Folk Dance world plus dances by himself or others.

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William Hathaway
Cecil Sharp collected a good few morris and country dance tunes from him between 1907-11.

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Dance
==Dance Research== * [[Dance Bibliography]]. Includes books, articles,academic studies, and links to not

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Dance Bibliography
...and also has a particular interest in the illustration of music and social dance over the centuries. http://www.broadsideband.co.uk ...e containing many articles and facsimiles pertinent to various aspects of dance, including quadrilles, the 1993 Hornpipe Conference, step and clog, English

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Dusky Night,The
...published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume 4 [[Index to Thompson's 200 Series|Index]] [[Category:Dance]]

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Ashover Ms
This item is a brief manuscript tune book, containing 16 dance tunes, Most pages contain dance instructions in the stylised manner of the printed

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Bob Cann
...revival in the late 1940s, and he did a lot of work for the [[English Folk Dance and Song Society]] in the south west of England. The folk music establishme ...on a national stage. After recording the [[West Country Melodeon (LP)|West Country Melodeon]] LP for [[Topic Records]] in 1975 he toured with a band of folk-r

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Bland & Weller
...ollections of Vauxhall Songs from 1793 till at least 1800, yearly books of country dances and sheet music. * Bland & Weller (P) B & W's Annual Collection of 24 Country Dances for the year 1797, with their proper figures. For the violin & Germa

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Bampton
*[[Bacca Pipes]] (The Pipe Dance)<br /> *[[Country Gardens]]<br />

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Billy Cooper
* English Country Music: Topic TSCD607. ''The greatly expanded CD reissue of the Record No1 * English Country Music ‎(LP, Album) Topic Records 12T296 1976

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