Grimstock ~ Davies
Inspired by Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams, for Playford style dances I have added a few extra symbols.
Grimstock ~ Davies is an English Country Dance. It was published by John Playford (website) in 1651 in The English Dancing Master. It was interpreted by Rhodri Davies in 2020 and published in Colin Hume's Website. It is a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. It is a USA dance. The minor set lasts 216 bars. It is in the key: G Major.
Playford writes:
Lead up all a D. forwards and back, set and turn S. That again First Cu. go down between the second, the third come up between the first This forwards and back to your places Sides all, set and turn S. That again First cu. go down under the second cu. arms, the third come up under the first This forwards and back to your places Arms all, set and turn S. That again First cu. change places and go down the S. Hey And come up the S. Hey on her own side Colin Hume claims this interpretation comes from "Various people" and that he is merely publishing it because someone should. I credit him faute de mieux.
The tune, Grimstock, was published with the dance, and the music was synthesized by Colin Hume's software.
The animation plays at 111 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 (no music plays during this slow set). 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.
An online description of the dance may be found here.
The dance contains the following figures: USA, set, turn single, cast, hey, mirror hey, siding, arming (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:
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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 2020 by Rhodri Davies. 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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