Lady Jane Murray's Rant ~ Williams
Lady Jane Murray's Rant ~ Williams is an English Country Dance. It was published by David Rutherford in about 1756 in Rutherford's compleat Collection of 200 of the most celebrated Country Dances both Old and New, Vol. 1, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2024. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 16 bars.
The RSCDS spells the title "Lady Jean Murray's Rant".
Rutherford writes (in dance 139)
The first Man casts off, & the 2d Woman casts up at the same time & turns The first Wo. and 2d Man does the same Hands a cross with the 2d Couple & back again Foot to your Partner & right Hands & Left
The music consists of 2 four bar phrases, each presumably played at 4 counts per bar.
I have changed Foot to your Partner into "Set to your neighbor" to make the dance flow better.
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.
| 1-2 | 1st corners cast left into each other's places |
| 3-4 | They two hand turn |
| 5-6 | 2nd corners cast right into each other's places |
| 7-8 | They two hand turn |
| 9-10 | Right hands across... |
| 11-12 | ...and back by the left |
| 13-13 | Set to your neighbor |
| 14-16 | Still facing neighbor, three changes of rights and left |
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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 2024 by George Williams. And is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2024 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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