Campbel's Frolick ~ Duple
Campbel's Frolick ~ Duple is an English Country Dance. It was published by Johnson in 1751 in A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, Vol. 6th, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2022. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.
Johnson published this in his 6th volume of Country Dances (1751), and Rutherford publishes essentially the same figure in 1756.
Foot it all 4 and Hands across & cast off The same with the 3d. Cu. Lead up to the Top foot it & cast off Hands round all 6 & turn your Partner
Modern dances would probably prefer this as a duple minor.
The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.
The dances of George Williams (including interpretations like this one) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.
| A1 | 1-2 | 1s+2s set |
| 3-6 | 1s+2s right hands across | |
| 7-8 | 1s cast down as 2s lead up | |
| A2 | 1-2 | With next neighbor set |
| 3-6 | Right hands across | |
| 7-8 | 1s cast down as 2s lead up | |
| B1 | 1-4 | 1s lead up to original place |
| 5-6 | 1s set | |
| 7-8 | 1s cast down as 2s lead down | |
| B2 | 1-4 | Circle left |
| 5-8 | 1s two hand turn |
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