Short and Sweet - Bray

Short and Sweet - Bray is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Thomas Bray in 1699 and published in Country Dances: Being a Composition Entirely New, London. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 24 bars.

The tune was composed by Henry Purcell and first published by Playford. It was performed by Bare Necessities (Earl Gaddis, Mary Lea, Peter Barnes, and Jacqueline Schwab) on the album More Favorites of the Boston Centre. The music is used with permission from the Country Dance Society, Boston Centre, Inc.

The animation plays at 107 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.

A11-2Move into right shoulder siding
3-4Cast left to places
A21-2Move into left shoulder siding
3-4Cast right to places
B11-21s cross and lead up
3-4Cast away from each other to meet 2s
5-8Mirror turn neighbors, M1+W2 right, W1+M2 left
B21-4Neighbor mirror back to back, M1+W2 right, W1+M2 left
5-81s cross, go below, as 2s lead up and turn out

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