Table of Contents

B

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Beauteous Grove ~ Cook		Nathaniel Kynaston 1711 Tom Cook 1975	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

C

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Come Let's Be Merry		John Young 1726 Tom Cook 1975 Playford Assembly	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 312
Crystal Spring		Orly Krasner 2008		Duple Minor

D

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Dusty Miller - Neal The Dusty Miller - Neal ~ Jackson&Fogg John & William Neal 1726 Rich Jackson & George Fogg 1990 Frank Hoppe 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231 The Dusty Miller - Neal ~ Jackson&Fogg - Triple John & William Neal 1726 Rich Jackson & George Fogg 1990 Frank Hoppe Triple Minor The Dusty Miller - Neal ~ Playford Assembly John & William Neal 1726 John Young 2015 Playford Assembly Frank Hoppe 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

E

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Eight Hands Over		Lloyd Shaw 1939		Square

G

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Gleaners		Ron Coxall ~1999		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

J

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Jack's Health ~ Hume		John Playford 1679 Colin Hume 2024	Colin Hume	Duple Minor

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Mrs. Pomeroy's Pavane		Charles Bolton 1986	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways

N

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Newcastle Newcastle ~ Revels John Playford 1651 Santa Barbara Revels 2024 Colin Hume Square Newcastle ~ Sharp John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp 1911 Playford Ball Colin Hume Square

R

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Red and all Red ~ Hume		Lister 1753 Colin Hume 2003	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Row Well, Ye Mariners ~ Sharp		John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp 1912	Bare Necessities	7 Couple Longways

S

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Step Stately		John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp 1916 Playford Ball	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways

W

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
White Wheat		Hazel Moir 2005	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Warning: The figures for each dance is generated programmatically by regular expression matching and may be in error. Also, for old dances, they reflect the figures used by the interpreter which may not match those of the deviser.

Honour

Also known as: Honor, Bows and Curtsies.

An online definition may be found here.

Bars: 2.

Bow or curtsy. Playford occasionally uses this as a separate figure, and with Cotillions, Quadrilles, etc. the first 8 bars of the dance were given over to honours (even though the dance description did not mention them)

History

Playford used "honour" as a figure from the first. In Graies Inne Mask, 1651 he says: Honour all, salute. But the use died out with very few after 1700.

Cecil Sharp added quite a lot of extra honours not called for by Playford in his interpretations.

Cecil Sharp says:

This a formal obeisance made by partners to one another at the conclusion, and sometimes in the course, of the dance. The man bows, head erect, making a slight forward inclination of the body from the hips; the woman, placing her left foot behind the right, makes a quick downward and upward movement by bending and straightening the knees.

See Also

• Set and Honour

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