Woodycock
The Green Man ~ Playford
Woodycock or The Green Man ~ Playford is an English Country Dance. It was published by John Playford (website) in 1651 in The English Dancing Master. It was interpreted by Scott Pfitzinger (website) in about 2019. It is a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. It is a USA dance. The dance lasts 128 bars. The tune is a jig. It is in the key: D Minor. An online description of the dance may be found here.
Playford writes
Lead up all a D. forwards and back That again Set and turn S. That again The 2. cu. lead up between the first, cast off and come to your places lead down between the last cu. and as much As before Sides all That againe As before The 2. man cross over and go about the 1. wo. while the 2. wo. goes about the last man, and turn to your places Then 2. man about the last wo. while the 2. wo. go about the first man, and to your places As before Armes all That againe As before Men the S. Hey As before Women the S. Hey As before The D. Hey all As before
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, cast, lead, hey, hey for three, circular hey, lead and cast, siding, arming, (and probably others).
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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 © 2022 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.
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