[SCA-Dance] Sellenger’s Round variants

[Alexander Clark]

I teach it just once in a while, mainly in a line (3rd ed. says that
longways for six is an option, and I suspect, based on Tom a Bedlam or
Gray's Inn Maske, in the Lovelace Ms., that this is a simplistic
description and six is just a typical number of couples to do it in line).
I go with doubles, not slips, for either formation, and I take it that the
first figure was supposed to be lead up if longways, or do doubles around
the circle if round.  It was only in the fourth and fifth editions that it
was published with four parts and two different opening figures, and I take
that to be an editorial mistake.

I use the Byrd tune the way it was originally written, except for some
simplifying, so the middle eight beats are not repeated.  The figures are:
Lead up a double and back (or two doubles around the circle), that again.
Chorus: Facing partner, two singles forward, a double back, set and turn,
set and turn.
Sides, chorus, arms, chorus.

-- 
Henry/Alex

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On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 2:40 PM, lgp477--- via Sca-dance <
sca-dance at sca-dance.org> wrote:

>
> Our former dance mistress, who was from Pentamere, taught it as 1DL, 1DR,
> 1DL, 1DR (I had learned it with 8 slips in a college class).  That's the
> only place I've seen it with doubles.
> Freydis
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>
> I've only seen the first verse as eights slips, rather than two doubles. As
> far as I can tell, the Middle stopped doing a step-ball-change step in the
> chorus a long time ago.
>
> --Urraca
>
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Aaron Macks <upelluri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Something that came up recently in discussion was Sellenger’s Round, and
> > how we do it. Briefly, in 4 repeats of the music:
> > Verses - 2 D Left, 2 D right; D in and out (repeat); Siding; Arming
> > Chorus (same each time) - step-ball-change in, double out, set and turn,
> > repeat
> >
> > Does anyone know if it is danced significantly differently in other
> > places? What we do seems to come closest to Playford 4 (1670), but not
> > exactly, and I was curious…
> >
> > Gun∂ormr
> >
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