What You Please - Skillern/Duple

What You Please - Skillern/Duple is an English Country Dance. It was published by Thomas Skillern in 1780 in Skillern's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1780, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2021. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.

Skillern writes:
First and 2d. Cu Set change & Right hands across The same back again & Left hands across lead down the middle up again and cast off Hands 4 at bottom Right and Left at top

Skillern's instructions call for Rights and Lefts but only allow 4 bars for 4 changes - which usually take 8 bars. I have substituted a circular hey without hands as a faster way to do the same thing.

The animation plays at 120 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. 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.

The dances of George Williams (including interpretations like this one) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.
An online description of the dance may be found here.

A11-4Set and partner change
5-8Right hands across
A21-4Set and partner change
5-8and left hands back
B11-81s lead down the middle, turn, lead back and cast off as 2s lead up
B21-4Next neighbors circle four
5-81s+2s face partner, four quick changes of a circular hey (with hands if there is time)

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