Playford's Progeny

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====== A RETIRING FELLOW ======
Gary Roodman  1999\\
Longways for Four Couples\\
Duple Minor Improper\\
Historical English Style\\
Tune: A RETIRING FELLOW
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A1 With neighbor, right hand turn once around, The
   women change places with each other by the right
   shoulder, then face neighbor (the person you just
   turned with) for a two-hand turn halfway, an end
   facing the other pair up or down the set. (Its nice
   for the women to maintain eye contact with neighbor
   as they Cross, )

A1 SIMILAR FIGURE FROM NEW PLACES; 
   With partner (who is up or down the get from you), right
   hand turn once around, Men change places with
   each other and face partner for a two-hand turn halfway,
   and end facing the other couple up or down the set.

    Everyone is now diagonally across from where they began, 
    
B1 1-2 SIDE-BY-SIDE SIDING: 
       Move forward to stand right shoulder
       to right shoulder with neighbor,
   3-4 All turn single left back to place.

B2     Side-by-side siding by the left shoulder with 
       neighbor and all turn single right back to place,

C      CHAINING RIGHT/LEFT HANDS ACROSS:
       Right-hands across halfway with your own couple;
       then in the middle, two couples left-hands across
       halfway; then on the ends, everyone right-hands
       across halfway. Everyone turn single,

D1, D2 With this last couple, do a whole poussette, women
       pulling first.</code>
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkb9mc9lh9g\\
MUSIC: “Mundesse”, which appears in the first edition of
Playford’s The English Dancing Master (1651).

Teaching Point: \\ In B1 and B2, it is good to urge dancers to leave
a little space in the middle as they do the siding, so that there is
room for middle people to do the turn singles away.