Table of Contents

B

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Bellamira Bellamira ~ Bolton Henry Playford 1689 Charles Bolton 1985 Bare Necessities Duple Minor Bellamira ~ Hume Henry Playford 1689 Colin Hume 1995 Bare Necessities Duple Minor Bellamira ~ Kennedy Henry Playford 1689 Douglas & Helen Kennedy 1929 Playford Assembly Bare Necessities Duple Minor

C

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Le Carillon D'Oxfort Le Carillon D'Oxfort Feuillet 1706 Pat Shaw ~1964 Duple Minor

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Les Mariniers Les Mariniers Dezais 1712 Colin Hume 2025 Colin Hume Duple Minor
My Lord Byron's Maggot My Lord Byron's Maggot ~ Pat Shaw Henry Playford 1701 Pat Shaw ~1965 Duple Minor My Lord Byron's Maggot ~ Regency Dances Henry Playford 1701 Regency Dances Duple Minor My Lord Byron's Maggot ~ Sharp Henry Playford 1701 Cecil Sharp 1922 Duple Minor

R

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Restoration of King Charles The Restoration of King Charles ~ Bolton John Young 1726 Charles Bolton 2003 Duple Minor The Restoration of King Charles ~ ¿Page? John Young 1726 ¿Chris Page? ~2025 Duple Minor
Les Mariniers Les Mariniers Dezais 1712 Colin Hume 2025 Colin Hume Duple Minor Row Well, Ye Mariners ~ Bolton John Playford 1651 Charles Bolton 1992 Playford Assembly Strong Roots Bare Necessities Circle as many as will Row Well, Ye Mariners ~ Sharp John Playford 1651 Cecil Sharp 1912 Bare Necessities 7 Couple Longways
The Royal Navy		Henry Playford 1703 Andrew Shaw 2009		Duple Minor

S

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Shindig		Renée Camus 2024	Jon Berger	Duple Minor
Softly Good Tummas		Nathaniel Kynaston 1718 Andrew Shaw 2002 Playford Assembly	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

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.

Noise

Also known as: Clap, Stamp, Stomp, Snap Fingers.

Bars: 2.

There are various ways of making percussive sounds with the body, clapping is the most common, stamping feet, snapping fingers, etc.

History

Playford uses clap in Gathering Peascods of 1651.

Playford uses stamp with the right foot in The Cuckow #1 of 1657.

Playford uses snap their fingers in Bobbing Joe of 1651.

Modern square dancing does not use clap, but in 1951 the Texas version of the dance Box the Gnat did.

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