Each dance is published with music, instructions for dancers and callers, and background notes. Includes a chapter on dance choreography. All dance length. Tunes, played on violin, recorders, bassoon, and harpsichord, are all dance length. Includes a discussion of modern English dance technique, glossary and bibliography, and short history of dance reconstruction methodology.
All selections dance length.
Includes longways, circle, and set dances. All dance length, played on violins, concertina, recorders, bass, melodeon, accordion and percussion. The Duke of Kent's Waltz, Loxley Figure Eight, Childgrove, Zephyrs and Flora, Upon a Summer's Day, Speed the Plough, and Christchurch Bells. They play 13 classic English country dance tunes, all dance length. A listing of contact information for over 600 English and Anglo-American country dance and ritual dance groups in the United States, Canada and overseas.