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Barbarini's Tambourine

Walsh 1745
Schwab 1987
Longways for as many as will

 A1   16  First corners cast (left) around neighbor, pass each other left,
          and loop right around partner to corner's place.
 A2   16  Second corners the same (cast right and pass right).

 B1    8  All balance back (4), and cross to own side (4).
      16  Back to back with neighbor, then partner.
      
 B2   16  Four changes of circular hey, handing
       8  Turn partners both hands.

Music:
barbarinis_tambourine-074-bnntcap-13.mp3.zip - modern instrumentation
barbarinis_tambourine-vemh-01.mp3.zip – period music
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrKr2VCRYSc

Barbara Campanini, also known as “La Barbarina,” was one of the greatest dancers of her day, she was also one of its greatest beauties. Born in Parma in 1721, she triumphed in Paris, London, Vienna, Dublin, and Berlin. When Frederick the Great of Prussia insisted on engaging her services in 1743, she attempted to elude what she viewed as an onerous obligation by escaping to Venice the besotted young Scottish aristocrat James Stuart-Mackenzie, but the lovers were detained and separated. In 1748, she again risked Frederick’ rage by accepting the marriage proposal of Carl Ludwig von Cocceji, son of a Prussian chancellor, who had leapt onto the stage to declare his love: When Cocceji affections wandered, she demanded an honorable divorce, took the title of Countess Campanini, and ended as the lay abbess of a convent. Left all to the nuns.
Her likeness has graced an East German stamp, and her romantic escapades have inspired four movies to date.

ins_barbarinis_tambourine.txt · Last modified: 2024/07/29 18:20 by mar4uscha