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• United States
  ===[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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Cecil Sharp's Note 38 (1916)
  A country-dance air, which, however, has nothing in common with the tune in the text, is pr
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• Thomas Denley
  He played 3 morris tunes and 3 country dance tunes for Cecil Sharp on 30 Aug 1909: Thomas Denley (Sharp wrote ‘Danley�
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• MITTELL,Wm
  "A Collection Of Hornpipes, Reels, Country Dances etc. It consists of 147 numbered dance tunes, written in a capable hand, some with dance instructions below the tune.
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• Annadeene Fraley
  ...ived largely from his father, Richard, and his circle of friends, who were country fiddlers in the mold of Alva Greene (no recordings of Richard are known to ...fter the group asked Annadeene to sing country-western songs for the round dance interludes.
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• Harry Lee
  Various - Boscastle Breakdown: Southern English Country Music Topic Records 1974 ..., Let's all Sing like the Birdies do, Irish Hornpipe, Over the Waves, Clog Dance, Killikrankie, Robert E Lee, Sailor's Hornpipe, No Mother To Guide You, Iri
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• Books before 1900
  '''Song Books published prior to 1900''' (For ''dance tune'' books go [[List of historical tunebooks, some of which are available * '''[[Besom Maker and Other Country Folk Songs, The|The Besom Maker & Other Country Folk Songs]]''' - by [[Heywood Sumner]]. Pub 1888
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• MOORE,John of Shropshire
  ...ing classic examples of fiddlers tune books including a mixture of country dance tunes of the early nineteenth century, a few songs and number of street tun
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• Foster Charlton
  ...for Ever, but he subsequently left the group. Later he played in a country dance band, The Borderers.
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• Tune Index
  ..., split and recombine in different ways, change title, emigrate to another country and style... and so it goes on.
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