The Spanyard

The Spanyard is an English Country Dance. It was published by John Playford (website) in 1651 in The English Dancing Master, London. It was interpreted by Scott Pfitzinger (website) in about 2019. It is a proper 4 Couple Longways dance. There is no progression in this dance. It is a USA dance. The dance lasts 112 bars. It is in the key: D Major.

Playford writes:

Lead up a D. forwards, four slips to the right hand, set and turn S. Lead down, and as much First and last Cu. fall back, while the other meet and take both hands, the 2. Cu. slip up, and the third down, set and turn S. ·: All this again, to your places
Sides all, set and S. That again First and third put your We. by both hands back, the other going the Co. way, fall into each others places, set and turn S. ·: All that again the Co. way
Arms all, set and turn S. That again First man and 2. Wo. and third man and last Wo. meet and go back, take hands and go round once and a halfe, changing places ·: The other four as much All that again, to your places ·: ·:

The animation plays at 120 counts per minute. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color.

The transcriptions and interpretations of Playford dances found on http://playforddances.com/ from the various editions of The Dancing Master are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.
An online description of the dance may be found here.

1-2Up a double
3-4Four slip steps right
5-8Set and turn single
9-10Down a double
11-12Four slip steps right
13-16Set and turn single
17-181s+4s fall back while 2s+3s meet
19-202s+3s slip out to ends while 1s+4s to the middle
21-24Set and turn single
25-262s+3s fall back while 1s+4s meet
27-281s+4s slip out to ends while 2s+3s to the middle
29-32Set and turn single
33-36Side right
37-40Set and turn single
41-44Side left
45-48Set and turn single
49-52In groups of four at ends, half poussette (1st corners push)
53-56Set and turn single
57-60Finish the poussette back home
61-64Set and turn single
65-68Arm right
69-72Set and turn single
73-76Arm left
77-80Set and turn single
81-84In groups of four at ends, 1st corners forward to meet and fall back
85-881st corners two hand turn once and a half
89-922nd corners forward to meet and fall back
93-962nd corners two hand turn once and a half
97-1001st corners forward to meet and fall back
101-1041st corners two hand turn once and a half
105-1082nd corners forward to meet and fall back
109-1122nd corners two hand turn once and a half

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © ~2019 by Scott Pfitzinger. And is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2020 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.

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