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--- ins_hyde_park [2019/04/29 00:50] – created - external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ ins_hyde_park [2025/07/02 03:04] (current) – mar4uscha
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 ====== Hyde Park ======
 Source: Playford (1651), TPB, LoD v1 & v2.\\
+Cecil Sharp, 1913\\
 Setting: A square set of four couples.\\
 Version: 1.0
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             partner to start.
 </code>
+====== Hyde Park ======
+<code>
+Part I
+A  1-4 Head couples forward a double to meet and fall back a double.
+-8 Side couples the same.
+BI 1-2 Head men face partners, balance back and forward, then take both hands.
+-4 Head couples slip sideways to middle,
+-8 Men face opposites, take both hands, and slip out between side couples,
+       and cast back to place.
+B2 1-8 Repeat BI, side couples slipping in, &c.
+Part II
+A  1-8 As in Part I above.
+B1 1-2 Side men face partners, take right hands, change places, then make an arch,
+       right hands.
+-8 Head men face partners, pass right shoulder, go outside side couples and
+       under arches to head places, improper.
+B2 1-2 Movement repeated, heads changing and making arches.
+-8 Side couples face partners, pass right shoulder, go outside, under arches, &.
+Part III
+A  1-8 As in Part I above.
+B1 1-8 Men pass in front of partners, behind next women, weaving in and out
+       around the set to places, skipping.
+B2 1-8 Women repeat BI, Passing in front of partners to start.</code>
 Discussion:
-This dance is done in a square set; the couple closest to the head of the hall is the first couple, and the other couples are numbered clockwise from the first. Playford's instructions leave out the phrasing within the 8-bar phrases; the subdivisions abov
+This dance is done in a square set; the couple closest to the head of the hall is the first couple, and the other couples are numbered clockwise from the first. Playford's instructions leave out the phrasing within the 8-bar phrases; the subdivisions above
+The name in the original is **Hide-Park**//  which The Playford Ball notes was also the name of a play written by **Shirley** in 1637. Sharp modernized the name.
+ video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjHn1qviDkU\\
-The name in the original is ``**Hide-Park**,// which The Playford Ball notes was also the name of a play written by **Shirley** in 1637. Sharp modernized the name.
+**HYDE PARK**\\
- video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjHn1qviDkU
+Hyde Park was a fashionable spot for drives and promenades. An old ballad
+describes the park, beginning "Of all parts of England
+Hide Park hath the name, for coaches and horses, and
+persons of fame."