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• Hokey Cokey
  ...most the identical figures from those collected by Sharp, was set to a new tune by Jimmy Kennedy (composer of Teddy-Bears' Picnic, who died in Cheltenham) [[Category: Dance]]
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• Huntsman's Chorus
  This tune has been a staple in the repertoire of many English folk dance bands for years, to the extent that it is probably considered quite 'hackn ...ler's tune books in the 19th century and settled down to be a 32 bar dance tune.
  621 bytes (107 words) - 18:19, 22 December 2007
• Policy for dance pages
  Even today, tunes take up new titles through association with a dance and keep those titles as the tunes are played in sessions or published in b ...e'' because it was associated with that couple dance, whereas the original tune title was ''Laddy With the Plaidie''.
  1 KB (206 words) - 23:06, 3 December 2008
• Elizabeth Canning
  This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume ...ished by [[Peter Thompson]] in one of his [[Index_to_Thompson's_200_Series|dance collections]]
  834 bytes (122 words) - 11:38, 20 March 2009
• Policy for tune pages
  ...ling was often idiosyncratic) is so called because it was the music to the dance of the same name possibly first published by [[Preston and Son|John Preston This gives a problem when naming new pages in Folkopedia as a tune and a dance will compete for the same name.
  1 KB (224 words) - 23:05, 3 December 2008
• Rochdale Coconut Dance
  ...ggest that a coconut dance ever existed in Rochdale. If not, where did the tune come from? It is likely that it came from the pen of some northern musician The band '''Bellowhead''' popularised the tune in 2004 but their version reverses the order of the A and B parts.
  1 KB (174 words) - 13:29, 18 November 2008
• Varsovienna
  ...sovenneVarsoviana Dance]] was hugely popular and scores of variants of the tune are to be found all over the world. [[Category:Tune]]
  723 bytes (102 words) - 19:54, 14 September 2008
• Soldier's Joy (tune)
  This is a dance tune (a reel) with scores of variants. It is often attributed to Joshua Cummings Bruce Olsen refers to the incidence of the tune in a variety of printed sources. [http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/Olson/C
  464 bytes (79 words) - 19:52, 7 September 2010
• If the Heart of a Man be depress'd with Care
  ...where even then it was described as 'an old tune'. In D'Urfrey's play the tune carried the title ''Wou'd You Have a Young Virgin'' but it's earlier name w The tune is found as far afield as the Faroe Islands, where it is called 'La Fille'
  672 bytes (110 words) - 13:59, 4 March 2009
• Rig-a-Jig-Jig
  [[Category:Dance Tune]]
  49 bytes (4 words) - 22:24, 11 February 2009
• The Triumph
  ...tp://www.englishcountrydancing.org/kidson56.html here] also), for a 32-bar dance which differs from that known now. Campbell-Aird published a slightly diff The third part of the dance was introduced in an anonymous manuscript of 1818 and was quickly adopted i
  716 bytes (107 words) - 00:35, 14 November 2007
• Books
  ...ficulties. Some books deal with dance and it's associated music, some with dance only or the tunes only, etc. Some authors write from a perspective that in [[Dance_Bibliography|Social Dance Bibliography ]]
  701 bytes (119 words) - 23:33, 22 March 2008
• Glorishears
  Morris dance. At Bledington and Fieldtown this is a leapfrog dance.
  707 bytes (101 words) - 07:26, 8 June 2021
• Do ye Ken John Peel?
  ...on of c 1896. The latter, in English, is 'The Red House of Cardiff- a pipe dance.' '' [http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=4518&messages=128#24769 Lin
  1 KB (192 words) - 09:14, 27 March 2009
• The Prussian Hornpipe
  Bibliography: [[The Great Northern Tune Book]] [[category:Dance tune]][[category:Hornpipe]]
  370 bytes (46 words) - 16:48, 19 April 2008
• Referencing Tunes
  ...n double square brackets) so that it becomes the link to the page for that tune. Categorise the page by putting <nowiki>[[category:Dance tune]] and [[category:Hornpipe]]</nowiki> at the end of the page
  1 KB (181 words) - 10:41, 20 April 2008
• Speed The Plough (tune)
  [[Category:Dance tune]]
  213 bytes (32 words) - 00:40, 14 November 2007
• Woodland Flowers
  A tune composed by Felix Burns (1864 – 1920). ...itcart Polka]], popular dance orchestras such as Harry Davidson's Old Time Dance Orchestra and was also known in Sweden where Carl Jularbo recorded it as "S
  744 bytes (115 words) - 06:25, 16 July 2012
• Lady Caroline Stanhopes birthday
  This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume ...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
  1 KB (153 words) - 15:44, 21 January 2010
• Nottingham Swing
  The tune had already been noted down from Charles Leaton by Walter Pitchford on Apri This version of the dance differs from what is danced now. These days, the first couple return to fir
  984 bytes (152 words) - 13:57, 4 March 2009

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