A Trip O'er Tweed ~ Triple

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A Trip O'er Tweed ~ Triple is an English Country Dance. It was published by Playford (John Young) (website) in 1710 in The Dancing Master, Vol. the Second, London. It was interpreted by Bernard Bentley in 1965 and published in The Fallibroome Collection, Vol. 2. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. It is a double progression dance. Originally this was a single progression dance. The minor set lasts 24 bars. It is in the key: G Major.

Playford writes:

Note: Each Strain is to be play'd twice over.

The first Couple cast off and fall in between the second and third Woman and Man, and lead backward and forward Then first Woman cast off and fall in between the third Man and third Woman, the Man cast up and fall in between the second Man and second Woman at the same Time; then lead backward and forward The first Man and first Woman meet and fall back, the Man cast off round the second Woman, and the second Woman cast up round the third Man, then Righ and Lift quite round Back to Back with your own, then Back with the second Couple, then the Man lead his Partner up round the second Woman into their proper Places, Sett and cast off :

Playford says this dance is Longways for as many as will, and since three couples are mentioned in the instructions one assumes a triple minor is intended. The instructions would lead to double progression which is unlikely, so perhaps Playford intended a 3 couple dance after all. Bentley interprets it as a 3 couple dance, but I want to see what a double progression triple minor looks like.

There are some oddities. If you have two couples already out at the top, then when you get 2 more couples, then it is the 2nd couple from the top who must start as a 1, not the 1st couple.

When you have two couples out at the bottom they must switch places, but dancing the ghosts won't really do this (that leads to a double progression not the single we need), they must make up their own moves. In this case I can do everything but the last cast.

The Tweed is a river on the border between Scotland and England, flowing into the North Sea.

The tune was published with the dance, and the music was synthesized by Colin Hume's software.

The animation plays at 113 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily (no music plays during this slow set). Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.

The dance contains the following figures: cast, lead, rights and lefts, siding, back to back (and probably others).

If you find what you believe to be a mistake in this animation, please leave a comment on youtube explaining what you believe to be wrong. If I agree with you I shall do my best to fix it.

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1965 by Bernard Bentley. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2021 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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