This is an archive of the 2015 Mad Robin Ball web site. To learn about the upcoming Mad Robin Ball, see our current ball page.

2015 Program by Robin Hayden

Dances

Alice

Key to the Cellar

Autumn in Amherst

King of Poland

Bar a Bar

Lull Me Beyond Thee

Barbarini's Tambourine

The Slof Galliard

Braye's Maggot

Spanish Jigg

Hambleton's Round O  

Sun Assembly

The Invitation

The Wrights of Lichfield

Kelsterne Gardens

Winter Waltz

 

Program notes from Robin

 
Dance Original Source Published Notation Formation Meter Key Music source

Alice

Philippe Callens, 2002, Antwerp Antics

Same

Ldm

3/4

A

Barnes 2

Autumn in Amherst 

Philippe Callens,2002, Antwerp Antics

Same

Ldm, imp

2/2

D

Barnes 2

Bar a Bar

Walsh 1718 2nd Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master

Country Dance Society Boston Centre (CDCBC) The  ECD Collection V 6 At the Ball

 

2/2

Dm

Barnes 1

Barbarini's Tambourine

Walsh 1745 Caledonian Country Dances. Book 4tn Edition

http://tinyurl.com/k8hdtdz

Ldm

2/4

D

Barnes 1

Braye's Maggot

Thomas Bray's Country Dances, 1699 

http://tinyurl.com/l7tvnhm

Ldm

9/8

A

Barnes 2

Hambleton's Round O

Playford Dancing Master 1713

 

Ltm

3/2

Cm

Barnes 1

The Invitation

Gary Roodman, 2012, A Group of Calculated Figures

Same Music by Peter Barnes – Callers contact tspittler@gmail.com for more information

4-couple square

 

F

 

Kelstern Gardens

Playford Dancing Master 1727

CDCBC  ECD Collection  V 2, More Favorites of the Boston Centre

3-couple longways

4/4

Dm

Barnes 1

Key to the Cellar

Jenny Beer

CDCBC  ECD Collection  V 10, New Shoots

Ltm

3/4

Em

Barnes 2

King of Poland

Playford Dancing Master 1698

CDCBC  ECD Collection  V 6, At The Ball

Ldm

6/8

Gm

Barnes 1

Lull Me Beyond Thee

Playford Dancing Master 1651

CDCBC  ECD Collection  V 5, At Home

Ldm

6/9

Dm

Barnes 1

The Slof Galliard

Pat Shaw, 1974, New Wine in Old Bottles

Same – Callers contact tspittler@gmail.com for more information

4-couple longways

2/2

F

Barnes 1

Spanish Jigg

Playford Dancing Master 1721

D&H Kennedy Interpretation, 1929

Ldm

6/8

Barnes 1

Sun Assembly

Thompson, 1757,   Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Fashionable Country Dances

CDCBC  ECD Collection  V 1, Favorites of the Boston Centre

Ldm

2/4

A

Barnes 1

The Wrights of Lichfield

Gary Roodman, 1999, Multiple Calculated Figures

Same

3-couple longways

6/8

Am

Barnes 2

Winter Waltz

Fried de Metz Herman, 1999, 

Serendipity and other interesting Country Dances 

3-couple longways, 2s & 3s imp

3/4

Em

Barnes 2

 

The booklet of dance descriptions will be sent to registered dancers beginning in April.

 


 

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