Adson's Saraband ~ Playford Ball

Adson's Saraband ~ Playford Ball is an English Country Dance. It was published by John Playford (website) in 1651 in The English Dancing Master, London. It was interpreted by The Playford Ball in 1994 and published in The Playford Ball. Found in The Playford Ball. It is a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. There is no progression in this dance. It is a multipart dance. The dance lasts 96 bars. It is in the key: D Major.

Playford writes:

Lead up all a D. forward and back, set and turn S. That again Men go a D. from your we. to the wall, come back to your we. set and turn S. Then the we. as much
Men go all down while the we. go up, men slip to the right hand, and we. to the left, fall even to the co.side, set and turn S. All this again the co. way to your places, set and turn S.
First cu. go down betwixt the second, they coming up, the third comes up between the first, then the second come to their places between the third, set and turn S. All this back again to your places
Go all to the left hand cross the Room, set and turn S. First and last on each side meet and go back, turn each other, the second turning his own Change all places with your own, set and turn S ·: First cu. lead down between the rest, come with a compass to your places, the rest following

This interpretation is almost the same as Sharp's, except that in III.A2 Sharp does not have the 2s meet.

The tune is The New Royal Exchange which was published by Playford in 1657, and was performed by Brett Larsen.

The animation plays at 116 counts per minute. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color.

The dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), set, turn single, cast, lead, hey, mirror hey, siding (and probably others).

If you find what you believe to be a mistake in this animation, please leave a comment on youtube explaining what you believe to be wrong. If I agree with you I shall do my best to fix it.

If you wish to link to this animation please see my comments on the perils of youtube. You may freely link to this page, of course, and that should have no problems, but use one of my redirects when linking to the youtube video itself:
https://www.upadouble.info/redirect.php?id=AdsonsSaraband

The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1994 by The Playford Ball. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2019 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.