[MR] Winter Solstice - Dance #5 Jenny Pluck Pears

[Lady Alexandra Scott]

Good afternoon!

You know?  I actually found out that there are Atlantians studying these dance 
notes!  How wonderful!  Thank you for your comments and encouragement.  


Please come dance with us at Winter Solstice on December 11 in Winston-Salem  
(http://sites.google.com/site/sssolstice2010/home).

Dance #5 - Jenny Pluck Pears

Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4OiG9anqwg
MP3:    http://ieee.uwaterloo.ca/praetzel/mp3-cd/ansteor/06-jenny.mp3
Sheet Music:    http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/~praetzel/Stockton/jenny_pl.pdf

Jenny Pluck Pears
Source: Playford (1651), TPB. 
Setting: A circle of 3 couples. 
Version: 1.1 
Verse:   1- 4  Take hands in a circle, 8 slip steps to left,  5- 8  drop hands, 
face partner, set and turn single.  9-12  Take hands in a circle, 8 slip steps 
to right, 13-16  drop hands, face partner, set and turn single.  Chorus:  17-18  
First man places first woman into the center of the circle,         facing him, 
19-20  second man does the same, 21-22  third man does the same, 23-24  
reverence.   1- 8  Men skip clockwise around circle, outside women.  9-16  Men 
skip counter-clockwise back to place.  17-22  Men hand out women in same order, 
23-24  reverence.  Verse:   1- 4  Side right,  5- 8  set and turn single.  9-12  
Side left, 13-16  set and turn single.  Chorus, women handing in men and 
skipping.  Verse:   1- 4  Arm right,  5- 8  set and turn single.  9-12  Arm 
left, 13-16  set and turn single.  Chorus, men handing in women and skipping. 

Discussion: 
Bars 17-24 are slower than bars 1-16, often much slower, and sometimes have 4 
notes played during a fermatta in bar 24 to clue the dancers and musicians into 
the tempo of the forthcoming fast section. 

As usual, Playford specifies doubles for the first verse, while Sharp and the 
SCA use a slipping circle. 



As taken from http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/dance/Jenny_Pluck_Pears.html.

Graciously,
Alexandra
 
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Alexandra Scott de Northumberland

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