Proper 4 couple longways dance with no progression
Playford's Dancing Master in 1657
Adapted by Cecil Sharp in 1912
Recording: spring_garden--023b.mp3.zip
spring_garden-psp02.mp3.zip
??? these sound the same, but are off different disks.
Fig I
A All lead partner up a double and back twice:
B1 All balance back & forward, circle L in 4's 1/2 way, balance back & forward &
change places (ends across set with partner, middles on side with neighbour);
B2,3,4 Repeat B1 3 times to original places:
Fig II
A In fours, fall back past neighbour on sides passing Rsh & cross Rsh with partner,
then repeat to places;
B1 Ends cast, followed by middles, into lines across set, then set in lines and cross
with opposite;
B2 New ends cast, followed by middles, into lines on sides, then set in lines and
cross with partner;
B3,4 Repeat B1 and B2:
Fig III
A 1-4 All face Mens' wall, move forward a double,
Men turn to face partner and all
cross with partner;
5-8 All face We's wall, move forward a double,
Men turn to face partner and all
cross with partner:
B1 Ends meet and set as middles fall back
diagonally towards ends, then come forward
into end places,
then all arm R 1 1/2, ends with partner,
middles with neighbour;
B2,3,4 Repeat B1 3 times, arming L, R and L.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQInPAlCDW8
SPRING GARDEN
Because this dance appears first in 1665, the reference
must be to the new Spring Garden at Lambeth, later to be
called Vauxhall. Samuel Pepys visited May 28, 1667.
‘I by water to Foxhall, and there walked in Spring Garden. A great deal of company, and the weather and garden pleasant: and it is very…cheap going thither, for a man may go to spend what he will, or nothing, all is one. But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and hear
fiddles and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing and there fine people walking is mighty divertising.“