The Country Bumpkin

The Country Bumpkin is an English Country Dance. It was published by Sylvan Harmer in about 1830 in Heathfield Memorials. It was interpreted by Colin Hume (website) sometime before 2021-05-05 and published in Colin Hume's Website. It is a proper 4 Couple Longways dance. In this dance the couples are permuted by: 2341. The minor set lasts 48 bars. Someone thought this dance was Easy.

Another Sir Roger de Coverley variation.

No music was published with this dance, Colin Hume recommends The Bluebell Polka. The music was synthesized by Colin Hume's software.

The animation plays at 92 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), set, gypsy, cast, lead, cross go below (and probably others).

If you find what you believe to be a mistake in this animation, please leave a comment on youtube explaining what you believe to be wrong. If I agree with you I shall do my best to fix it.

If you wish to link to this animation please see my comments on the perils of youtube. You may freely link to this page, of course, and that should have no problems, but use one of my redirects when linking to the youtube video itself:
https://www.upadouble.info/redirect.php?id=TheCountryBumpkin

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. I do not have a date for the interpretation, so it may be under copyright. 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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