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<div>'''English Country Dance''' is the common name for [[dance]]s propagated by [[John Playford]] and later his sons and other heirs in the book titled ''The English Dancing Master'' (later renamed to ''The Dancing Master''). This style of dancing evolved in [[England]], most likely from the [[Branle]], and eventually spread to [[France]] and [[Germany]] and later to the New World, and even Australia. Bush dances such as ''Strip the Willow'' are included in later editions of ''The English Dancing Master''.<br />
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It was published in 1651 and is theoretically outside of the [[SCA]] [[period]] but is commonly done in the [[SCA]] anyway. English Country Dance can properly be thought of as early [[Baroque Dance]] rather than [[Renaissance Dance]]. There are references to dances with some of the same names as those in ''Playford'' before 1600, although from the description of a couple of these it is clear that the dance was significantly different from those later printed by Playford.<br />
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The reconstructed dances are somewhat similar in form, usually being for sets of two, three, or four couples, consisting of a verse-and-chorus structure. The three "verse" sections tend to involve processing up and back in the first verse; siding in the second; and arming in the third. However, this is at best a general guideline.<br />
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== Some English country dances ==<br />
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From the [[Carolingia|Carolingian]] dance book:<br />
* Chestnut<br />
* Dargason<br />
* Gathering Postcoads<br />
* Grimstock<br />
* Heart's Ease<br />
* Hyde Park<br />
* If all the world were paper<br />
* Jenny Plucks Pears<br />
* Mage on a Cree<br />
* Parsons Farewell<br />
* Picking of Sticks<br />
* Rufty Tufty<br />
* Upon a Summer's Day<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
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* [http://www.sca.org.au/del/ddb/ Del's Dance Book], contains many English Country Dance reconstructions with their music.<br />
* [http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~flip/contrib/dance/playford.html Transcription of the first edition of The English Dancing Master].<br />
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