Grimstock ~ Hume

Grimstock ~ Hume Grimstock ~ Sharp

Grimstock ~ Hume is an English Country Dance. It was published by John Playford (website) in 1651 in The English Dancing Master, London. It was interpreted by Colin Hume (website) in 2020 and published in Colin Hume's Website. It is a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. There is no progression in this dance. It is a USA dance. The dance lasts 72 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. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color.

An online description of the dance may be found here.

The dance contains the following figures: USA, set, turn single, 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 Colin Hume. 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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