The Hole in the Wall
The Dancing Master 1698
Douglas and Helen Kennedy 1929
As in “The Playford Ball”
Duple Minor Longways
Recordings: hole_in_the_wall-_064-bn3sp15.mp3.zip
hole_in_the_wall--014.mp3.zip
hole_in_the_wall--036.mp3.zip
hole_in_the_wall_-_les_triolets_-_track4.mp3.zip
A1 1-4 C1 cast down, move around C2 and lead up center to place. A2 1-4 C2 cast up, move around C1 and lead down center to place. B 1-2 1st corners change places, falling back on last three steps. 3-4 2nd corners the same. 5-6 Circle four-hands half-way around. 7-8 C1 cast down one place, C2 moving up.
See an animation of this dance
A very nice rendition follows Mr. Beveridge in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySByLPBNC1s .
THE HOLE IN THE WALL
‘The title, “The Hole in the Wall” is not relevant to the
play and may reflect a different use of the melody. It
might have been an interpolation in Purcell's Fairy Queen,
which was based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's
Dream and features the Pyramis and Thisbe scene in
which a “hole in the wall” is prominent. We have not been
able to find a London reference for this title, although
there is an old pub in Bath known as “The Hole in the
Wall,” the reference there said to be to the coal chute.