Money Musk - Chivers
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Money Musk - Chivers is an English Country Dance. It was devised by G. M. S. Chivers in 1821 and published in A Pocket Companion to the French and English Country Dancing. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2026. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.
Chivers writes:
Three ladies lead round the three gents (who advance and retire at the same time).. three gents lead round the three ladies, who advance and retire.. cast off two couple — lead up and set — right and left at top.. (4 parts)
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.
| A1 | 1-8 | Three ladies take hands and circle counter-clockwise round the gentlemen returning to places, while the gents advance and retire |
| A2 | 1-8 | Three gentlemen take hands and circle clockwise round the ladies returning to places, while the ladies advance and retire |
| B1 | 1-6 | 1s cast below the 3s, and lead up to 2nd place as 2s move up |
| 7-8 | 1s set | |
| B2 | 1-8 | 2s+1s face partner rights and lefts |
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