Just as I was in the Morning ~ Williams
Just as I was in the Morning ~ Williams is an English Country Dance. It was published by David Rutherford in 1756 in Rutherford's compleat Collection of 200 of the most celebrated Country Dances both Old and New, Vol. 1, London. It was interpreted by sometime before 2022-12-06. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 40 bars.
The 1st Cu. casts of one Cu. cast up again cross over and turn · the 2d Cu. does the same the 1st Man Leads his Partner off and Leaves her in the 2d Mans Place then turns the 2d Wo then Leads her thro the Mens side and turns her then the 1st Cu. half figures Round the 2d Cu. and turns
Rutherford's music is a 4 bar A part and an 8 bar B. I'm going to assume the A part is played 4 times, and the B part three times. Rutherford's strain markers ( ·, etc.) make no sense to me so I shall ignore them.
What does Rutherford mean by the 1st Man Leads his Partner off? "Lead off" is not a term I've met with before, it may be a portmanteau of "Lead" and "cast off". The RSCDS has a reasonable interpretation — except that it looks more to me as if W1 is doing the leading rather than M1.
The RSCDS has M1 leading out through the men's line twice, I think it would be more symetrical to lead once through the woman's and once through the men's.
This is one of those cases where the original is so obscure there's no way to say what was intended. The RSCDS has a valid interpretation. I think mine is a different, but also valid interpretation.
Rutherford's then Leads her thro the Mens side and turns her then the 1st Cu. half figures Round the 2d Cu. and turns seems rather rushed for 8 bars. The RSCDS solves this by doing it in 16 bars. Another solution might be just to leave out the turns.
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: hand turn (allemande), cast, lead, figure eight, siding, cross go below (and probably others).
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