Masquerade Royal ~ Triple, Williams
Temple Barr ~ Williams
Masquerade Royal ~ Triple, Williams or Temple Barr ~ Williams is an English Country Dance. It was published by John Young (Playford family) (website) in 1718 in The Dancing Master, Vol. the Second, 3rd ed.. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2021. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 30 bars.
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 dances of George Williams (including interpretations like this one) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.
| A1 | 1-2 | 1s turn single down |
| 3-8 | 1s lead below 3s and cast back to place | |
| A2 | 1-2 | 2s turn single up |
| 3-8 | 2s lead above next 3s and cast back to place | |
| B | 1-8 | End couples cast as 2s lead up in a morris mirror hey |
| 9-10 | 1s cast down as 2s lead up (this should flow from the hey) | |
| 11-14 | 1s two hand turn |
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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 2021 by George Williams. And is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 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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