Playford's Progeny

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====== Black Nag ======
The Playford Ball 1657 \\
Cecil Sharp, 1911\\ 
longways 3 couples
   
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   Part I
   A  1-8 Partners lead up a double and fall back a double. That again.
   B1 1-2 1st couple take two-hands and move up four slips.
      3-4 2nd couple the same.
      5-6 3rd couple the same.
      7-8 All turn single right.
   B2 1-8 Repeat B1, slipping back to place in reverse order, 3rd couple
          slipping down first.
          
   Part II
   A  1-8 Partners side twice.
   B1 1-8 1st man and 3rd woman change places with 4 slip steps, leading with
          right shoulder and passing back-to-back.
      3-4 1st woman and 3rd man the same.
      5-6 2nd couple the same.
      7-8 All turn single right. (Turn single NOT present in DM 1670 original.)
         B2 1-8 Repeat B1 back to place.
         
   Part III
   A  1-8 Partners arm right, then left.
   B1 1-8 Men hey for three, skipping: 1st man begin by passing right shoulder.
   B2 1-8 Women hey as in B1, men turn single on last four beats of music.
          (Turn single NOT present in DM 1670 original.)
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Recordings: {{ ::music:black_nag--010.mp3.zip |}}\\
{{ ::music:black_nag--032.mp3.zip |}}\\
See an [[http://www.dancekaleidoscope.org.au/dance.html#BlackNag|animation of this dance]]\\
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S05Zts9gN2s\\

**THE BLACK NAG**\\
With a dance and tune sharing similarities with the
earlier "Millison's Jig" (DM I: 1651-1690), "Black Nagg,"
corrected to "Black Nag" in 1686, became "The Gallopping
Nag" in 1695. When John Walsh appropriated the entire
contents of the sixteenth edition of the first volume of
The Dancing Master (1716) for his Compleat Country
Dancing Master of 1718, the editors of The Dancing
Master substituted a new figure with this tune in the last
two editions.