[SCA-Dance] "Drive the Cold Winter Away"

[rendancer]

Hi, There is a dance-able version of this Song. It is on a album called Shepheards Holyday by Wandering Hands

This is an excellent album, you can find it on iTunes.


The song is 2:33


You should check it out. The person is a Dance Laurel her name is - Sara L Bonneville, (known in the SCA as Sara de Bonneville)
I also have the dance booklet that came with the CD


Jeanette 

---- On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 19:17:38 -0800 Donna <lgp477 at up.net> wrote ---- 

On 2/20/15, Charlene C <charlene281 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote: 
> 
> Does anyone have a good danceable version of this? The second link 
>> above has "Country Dances by the Broadside Band. This tape's version 
>> has an AABBBBx3 structure (the 'B's could just be very long, so really 
>> only BB), which should work with this reconstruction." 
>> 
>> Actually, what I just downloaded from Amazon, supposedly from 
>> The Broadside Band 
>> The English Dancing Master: Drive the Cold Winter Away 
>> is AABB, 13 repetitions. The total time is 6:13, which is way longer 
>> than any USA ECD dance I've heard. (I hear A as 8 beats, B as 16 
>> beats, AABB is about 0:28. I found it hard to distinguish A from B 
>> without referring to the Playford reproduction music in the first link 
>> above.) 
>> 
>> Mind you, the tempo is good, which is much more than can be said about 
>> the other renditions I heard, which tended to be for listening and 
>> maybe half the speed you'd want to dance. 
>> 
>> 
> I like the tempo of this one: 
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LE9D4E/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk6 
> 
> A=8 beats 
> B=16 beats 
> (AABB)x3 
> 
> Also, for those interested, this CD has the original tune for Adsons 
> Saraband instead of New Exchange: 
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LE9D94/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk8 
> (Back in the ancient times when you couldn't buy single tracks, I bought 
> this CD just for Adsons.) 
> 
> 
> Perronnelle 
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