Playford's Progeny

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====== The Indian Queen ======
As in "The Playford Ball"  (Playford, 11th ed. 1701)\\
Cecil Sharp, 1925\\
Recording: {{ ::music:indian_queen-068-bn12pb09.mp3.zip |}}\\
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{{ ::music:indian_queen-priprec04.mp3.zip |}}\\
 Duple Minor Longways
<code>   
 A1  1-4  1st corners set forward to each other, 
          and turn single back to place. 
     5-8  The same turn two-hands once around. 
 A2  1-8  2nd corners repeat A1. 
 B1  1-8  All right-hands across and left-hands back. 
 B2  1-4  Partners back-to-back. 
     5-8  Circular hey, three changes, beginning with partner.</code>
====== The Indian Queen ======
Longways
 <code>     
   1st corners set, turn single; and turn each other.
   2nd corners the same.
   R hands across; L hands across.
   Partners back to back; circular hey 3 changes, partners facing.</code>



See an [[http://www.dancekaleidoscope.org.au/dance.html#IndianQueen|animation of this dance]].

 **INDIAN QUEEN**\\
John Dryden's tragedy "The Indian Queen” was
converted into an opera by Henry Purcell shortly before
he died in 1695. The score includes at least one tune
which was later used as a country dance, the second air,
which became the "Duke of Gloucester's March" in
Thomas Bray's collection of 1699.

A tune called “The New Bore [Bourrée]" appears at the
very end of the ninth edition of The Dancing Master
(1695),