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+++ ins_hunsdon_house [2025/07/01 05:32] (current) – mar4uscha
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 ====== Hunsdon House ======
-couples in a square
+Cecil Sharp, 1912\\
+couples in a square\\
 Recording: {{ ::music:hunsdon_house-bnah5-05.mp3.zip |}}\\
 {{ ::music:hunsdon_house--014.mp3.zip |}}
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-Part 1: Chorus: (Grand Square)
+Part I
-A1     Heads up a double, while
+Al 1-2 Head couples forward a double to meet while side couples face partner and
-       sides fall back away from partners to corners of square (1-2),
+       fall back a double.
-       Heads fall back to sides with opposites, while
+-4 Taking right hands with opposites, head couples fall back to nearest side place
-       sides forward to meet opposites at the head positions (3-4)
+       while side couples meet opposites in head places.
-A2     New heads up a double, new sides fall back to corners (1-2),
+A2 1-4 New heads meet and fall back to original side places while new sides face and
-       Sides fall back with partners and heads forward to meet partners
+       fall back, then meet original partners in head places. {The movement of Al and
-       all returning to original positions (3-4)
+is called "grand square"}
-Main Figure:
+Bl 1-4 Head couples forward a double to meet and turn single to the right,
-B1     Heads up a double, turn single back to place (1-4),
+-6 Head men change places.
-       Head women trade places (5-6),
+-8 Head women change places.
-       Head men trade places (7-8)
+-16 Side couples repeat B1 1-8.
-       Sides do the same (9-16)
+B2 1-16 Repeat Bl to places.
-B2     Repeat B1 to places
-Part 2:
-A1&2   Chorus as above
-B1     Heads up a double, form a circle with everyone facing out
-       and taking hands (1-4),
-       Circle CW 1/2 and lead out to opposite place (5-8)
-       Sides do the same (9-16)
-B2     Repeat B1 to places
-Part 3:
-A1&2   Chorus
-B1     Heads up a double, face partners (1-2),
-       Slow set and honor with partners (3-4),
-       Right and left through with opposites,
-       courtesy turn into opposite place (5-8)
-       Sides do the same (9-16)
-B2     Heads up a double, face opposites (1-2),
-       Slow set and honor with opposites (3-4),
-       Two changes of rights and lefts starting with partners
-       to original places (5-8)
-       Sides do the same (9-16)
-Depending on music, may finish with a final repeat of the chorus
+Part II
+AA As in Part I above.
+Bl 1-4 Head couples meet, turn around {to right} to stand back to back.
+-8 Circle four-hands clockwise half-way facing out, then lead out into opposite place.
+-16 Side couples repeat B1 1-8.
+B2 1-16 Repeat Bl ending in original place.
+Part III
+AA As in Part I above.
+Bl 1-2 Head couples forward a double to meet, then face partners.
+-4 Head couples slow set and honor partners right.
+-8 Head couples face opposite: right-and-left, two changes, beginning with opposite.
+-16 Side couples repeat B1 1-8.
+B2 1-16 Repeat Bl, except that men slow set and honor opposite women, partners
+        face for right-and-left.
+{This is a slow, dignified dance.}
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 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsnr37zfN4w
+**HUNSDON HOUSE**\\
+This dance is often pointed out as the earliest version of
+the "grand square.”
+The Hunsdon manor in the county of Hertford was the
+residence of Henry Carey, fourth Lord Hunsdon, a
+prominent Royalist supporter in the Civil War who died
+three years after this dance first appeared in The English
+Dancing Master. According to Martha Curti, Hunsdon
+provided a refuge from the plague for Henry VIII, whose
+daughters Mary and Elizabeth lived there as children.
+Queen Elizabeth gave the manor to Henry Carey, the
+brother of her mother, Anne Bolyn, and created him
+Baron Hunsdon in 1559.