Come Brave Boys

Come Brave Boys is an English Country Dance. It was published by Walsh in 1712 in Twenty Four New Country Dances for the Year 1712, London. It was interpreted by Philippe Callens in 2004 and published in Antwerp Antics. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 24 bars. Someone thought this dance was Easy.

Walsh writes:

Note this Tune has but one Strain.

All four hands across round back again lead to the wall and back again Clownishly the 1st man and 2d wo. change places and the 2d man and 1st wo. cange place hands half round the 1st cu. cast off and turn hands.

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 dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), circle, cast, lead, hands across (and probably others).

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 2004 by Philippe Callens. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2021 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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