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--- ins_dargason [2020/03/24 02:48] – created - external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ ins_dargason [2025/07/11 20:37] (current) – mar4uscha
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 ====== Dargason ======
-Dargason (or Sedany)   From "The Playford Ball"
+Dargason (or Sedany)   From "The Playford Ball"\\
+Cecil Sharp, 1911\\
-Straight line of 4 women facing 4 men. Inside pair is 1st couple.
+Straight line of 4 women facing 4 men. Inside pair is 1st couple.\\
 Recording: {{ ::music:dargason-068-bn12pb01.mp3.zip |}}
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 A1  1-4 1st couple side.
 -6 1st couple set.
--8 1st couple pass by left shoulder whlle turning single,
+-8 1st couple pass by left shoulder while turning single,
               man to right, woman to left.
 A2  1-8 A1 repeated by 1st man with 2nd woman and 1st woman with 2nd man.
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 ====== Dargason ======
-Longways, arranged thus:4/ 3/ 2/ 1/ 1? 2? 3? 4?
+Longways, arranged thus:4M 3M 2M 1M 1L 2L 3L 4L
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 st man and 1st woman side; set and pass by the left, turning single as they do so.
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 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxk81ApKfd4
+**DARGASON; or, SEDANY**\\
+With two titles of Welsh derivation, both of which
+escape convincing explanation, this unique progressive
+dance is paired with a late sixteenth-century double-tonic
+circular tune of haunting familiarity. The title of the song
+below also connects the tune to Wales, Shropshire lying in
+the foothills on the English side of the border.