Young Roger - Neal ~ 3 Couple

Young Roger - Neal ~ 3 Couple is an English Country Dance. It was published by John & William Neal in 1726 in A Choice Collection of Country Dances. It was interpreted by Rich Jackson & George Fogg in 1990. Originally a Triple Minor this version is a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. In this dance the couples are permuted by: 231. The minor set lasts 32 bars. The tune is a slip jig.

The Neals write:

tune twice over, each strain twice
1^st. cu: lead thrô 2^d. cu: each going round their sex to their own places, & sett:
1^st. cu: cast off and lead thrô 3^d. cu: & cast up into 2^d. cu: place:
1^st. ma: turn 3^d. wo: w^th. his right hand, his par: y^e same w^th. 2^d. ma: at y^e same time, meet in 2^d. cu: place & turn his par: w^th. his left hand:
1^st. ma: turn 2^d. wo: w^th. his right hand, his par: y^e. same w^th. 3^d. ma: at y^e. same time, meet in 2^d. cu: place & turn his par: w^th. his left hand:
1^st. ma: goe betweene 3^d. cu: round 3^d. wo: into 2^d. wo: place, his par: y^e same at y^e same time w^th. 2^d. cu: into 2^d. ma: place, back to back, & end improper:
1^st. ma: goe betweene 2^d. cu: round 2^d. wo: into 2^d. wo: place, his par: y^e same at y^e same time w^th. 3^d. cu: round 3^d. ma: into 2^d. ma: place, back to back, & end improper:
1^st. ma: goe betweene 3^d. cu: round 3^d. wo: into 2^d. wo: place, his par: y^e same w^th. 2^d. cu: round 2^d. ma: at y^e same time, dance & end improper:
1^st. ma: cast off round 3^d. wo: & goeing betweene 3^d. cu: his par: y^e same at y^e same time w^th. 2^d. cu: round 2^d. ma: meet in 2^d. cu:place & turn both hands ending proper:

In 1710 John Young published a dance with the same name and tune but a different figure (Playford's tune has ABCD strains, while the Neals only present AB).

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), set, gypsy, cast, lead, figure eight, hey, lead and cast, back to back (and probably others).

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1990 by Rich Jackson & George Fogg. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2023 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.