[SCA-Dance] SCA Created Dances

Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.com
Fri Apr 30 17:05:34 EDT 2010


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 08:43:37PM -0400, Jane & Mark Waks wrote:

> > I still seem to think I saw this dance in a 1685-ish edition of Playford, but alas, I don't own a copy to be able to check that.
> 
> Patri and I went through this many years ago. IIRC, the dance first 
> appears in a 1698 flyleaf addendum to Playford.

Let's see, my dance 'cheat sheets' quote some guy named Justin:

| I checked with my favorite source of dance arcana --- Baron Patri ---
| and got the following chronology for Hole in the Wall. Between the
| ninth (1695) and tenth (1698) editions of The English Dancing Master,
| there appeared an addendum, called The Second Part of the Dancing
| Master.  Some copies of this have an extra sheet, which contains HiTW
| as well as a few other dances. By the 1698 edition of The Second Part,
| HiTW was in its main text, and it finally got into The English Dancing
| Master proper with the eleventh edition (1701). --- Justin


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