Saint Margaret's Hill ~ Hume

Saint Margaret's Hill ~ Bentley/Hume Saint Margaret's Hill ~ Hume Saint Margaret's Hill ~ Bentley

Saint Margaret's Hill ~ Hume is an English Country Dance. It was published by Playford (John Young) (website) in 1710 in The Dancing Master, Vol. the Second, London. It was interpreted by Colin Hume (website) in 2016 and published in Colin Hume's Website. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 24 bars.

Playford writes:
The first Cu. cast off both together, the Man falls in between the 3d Cu. and the Wo. valls in between the 2d Cu. then fall back and Hands half round The 1st Man turns the 3d. Wo. and his Partner thurn the 2d Man at the same Time, the turn your Partner half round, and lead her through the Bottom Cu. and come up and turn her, then the Wo. turns the 3d. Man, and her Partner turns the 2d. Wo. both at once, then turn Hands half round, and lead through the Upper Cu. and cast off and turn S

The tune was published with the dance, and the music was synthesized by Colin Hume's software.

The animation plays at 96 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.

The dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), cast, lead, lead and cast (and probably others).

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 2016 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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