Anna Bella

Anna Bella is an English Country Dance. It was published by Playford (John Young) (website) in 1726 in The Dancing Master, The Third Volume, 2nd ed., London. It was interpreted by Scott Pfitzinger (website) in 2019. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars. It is in the key: B# Major.

Playford (John Young) writes:

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

The first Man cast off and go the whole Figure round the third Couple, and stand in the second Couples Place And the first Woman do the same Then the first Man Heys with the third Couple at the bottom, and the first Woman Heys at top with the second Couple at the same Time Then the first Couple casts up at top, and go the whole Figure and cast off into the second Couples Place

The animation plays at 120 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. 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, figure eight, hey, hey for three (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 © 2019 by Scott Pfitzinger. And is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2022 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.

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