She's Over Young to Marry Yet ~ Thompson
She's Over Young to Marry Yet ~ Thompson is an English Country Dance. It was published by Thompson in about 1757 in Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, Vol I, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2023. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.
Thompson writes:
The 1st. Cu. Foot it to the 2nd Wo. hands three round Foot it to the 2nd Man hands all four round lead down two Cu. and the 2nd. and 3rd. follows cross over and turn your Partner
Does the 2nd Woman join in the Foot it to the 2nd Man? Probably not in the original, but I think it makes for a more interesting dance.
What do we make of the last half? lead down two Cu. and the 2nd. and 3rd. follows cross over and turn your Partner The 1s leading down two couples is not going to take up 8 bars, so clearly stuff is missing.
Presumably it's "1s, followed by others, lead down, cross, cast back to place" that could take up eight bars.
Now we have 8 more bars and only "turn your Partner". The 1s need to cast down to 2nd place and we need to get everyone proper. So presumably it is "1s long cast down, 2s up" then everyone turn partner to proper.
Rutherford published an earlier version of this dance:
Foot it all four & Hands across quite Round Foot it and the same back again Gallop down the Middle & up again & Cast off Right Hand & Left
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 | 1-4 | 1s set twice to W2 |
| 5-8 | 1s+W2 circle three left | |
| A2 | 1-4 | 1s(+W2) set twice to M2 |
| 5-8 | 1s+2s circle four | |
| B1 | 1-8 | 1s, followed by others, lead down, cross, cast up to original places but improper |
| B2 | 1-4 | 1s long cast down as 2s lead up |
| 5-8 | All, partner two hand turn once and a half to proper |
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