Guardian Angels ~ Williams is an English Country Dance. It was published by Thompson in 1776 in Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1776, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2022. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars. It is in the key: G major.
Sheffield found this dance in Thompson"s Compleat Collection, Vol. 4 from 1780, but it first appears some years earlier in one of the Thompson annuals.
Thompson writes:
Cast off 2 Cu. & up again cross over 2 Cu. lead up to the top & cast off hands across with the 3d. Cu. and back again hands 4 at top right & left
Thompson puts a lot more movement into A2 than A1. I have shortented A2 slightly by having the 1s stop in second place and not lead to top and cast off.
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.
An online description of the dance may be found here.
A1 | 1-8 | 1s cast below 3s and lead back to top |
A2 | 1-8 | 1s cross, go below 2s, cross again go below 3s and lead to 2nd place as 2s lead up |
B1 | 1-4 | 1s+3s right hands across... |
5-8 | ...and back by the left | |
B2 | 1-8 | 1s+2s face partner four changes of rights and lefts |
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