Upon a Summer's Day ~ Playford Ball

Upon a Summer's Day ~ Playford Ball is an English Country Dance. It was published by John Playford (website) in 1651 in The English Dancing Master. It was interpreted by The Playford Ball in 1994 and published in The Playford Ball. Found in The Playford Ball. It is a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. There is no progression in this dance. It is a USA dance. The dance lasts 120 bars. It is in the key: G Minor.

This is the first dance in the first edition of the first book published about English Country Dance.

Playford writes:

Lead all a D. forwards and back, set and turn S. That again The men take all hands, and the we. hands, meet all a D. back again; the first on each side go under the others Arms on their own side and meet below Hands again, and the next cu. as much Hands again, and the next cu. as much ·:

Sides all, set and turn S. That again As before ·:

Arms all, set and turn S. That again As before ·:

This is almost the same as Sharp's interpretation, except that in the B sections the 1s here lead down through arches, while Sharp has them cast down through arches.

The tune, Upon a Summer's Day, was published by Playford with the dance of the same name, and the music was synthesized by Colin Hume.

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 dance contains the following figures: USA, set, turn single, lead, siding, arming (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=UponASummersDay

The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1994 by The Playford Ball. 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.

Lead all a D. forwards and back, set and turn S. That again	The men take all hands, and the we. hands, meet all a D. back again; the first on each side go under the others Arms on their own side and meet below Hands again, and the next cu. as much Hands again, and the next cu. as much ·:

Sides all, set and turn S. That again	As before ·:

Arms all, set and turn S. That again	As before ·: