Dances interpreted by Tom Cook

Caledonian Country Dances

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Tod's Assembly		Johnson ~1748 Tom Cook 1979		Duple Minor

An Additional Sheet of New Dances for the Second Part

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Nonesuch (II)		Henry Playford 1697 Tom Cook 1975 Playford Assembly		Duple Minor

Again Let's Be Merry

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Regent's Hornpipe		Unknown ~1815 Tom Cook 1979		Duple Minor

A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, Vol. 3rd

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Black Boy Alley		Johnson 1744 Tom Cook 1979		Duple Minor

The Dancing Master, 10th ed.

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Devonshire House ~ Cook		Henry Playford 1698 Tom Cook 1979	Colin Hume	Duple Minor

The Dancing Master, 11th ed.

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Barham Down ~ Cook		Henry Playford 1701 Tom Cook 1975 Playford Assembly	Colin Hume	Duple Minor

The Dancing Master, 12th ed.

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Wooden Shoes		Henry Playford 1703 Tom Cook ~1999 Playford Assembly	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

The Dancing Master, 9th ed.

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
From Aberdeen ~ Cook		Henry Playford 1695 Tom Cook 1991	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 312
Jacob Hall's Jig ~ Cook		Henry Playford 1695 Tom Cook 1991	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

The Dancing Master, The Third Volume, 2nd ed.

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Come Let's Be Merry		John Young 1726 Tom Cook 1975 Playford Assembly	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 312
Fair and Softly		John Young 1726 Tom Cook 1979 Playford Assembly	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor
Green Stockings ~ Cook		John Young 1726 Tom Cook 1975		3 Couple Longways
Juno and Pallas		John Young 1726 Tom Cook 1975		3 Couple Longways
Kelsterne Gardens		John Young 1726 Tom Cook 1975 Playford Ball	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, Vol. 3

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The General		Thompson 1773 Tom Cook 1975		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1731

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Scotch Billy		Walsh 1731 Tom Cook 1979		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1768

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Goose and Gridiron		Thompson 1768 Tom Cook 1975 Playford Assembly	Dave Bartley, Ruthie Dornfeld and Terry Wergeland	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Twenty Four New Country Dances for the Year 1710

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Constant Lover ~ Cook		Nathaniel Kynaston 1710 Tom Cook ~1995	Colin Hume	Duple Minor

Twenty Four New Country Dances for the Year 1712

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Elverton Grove		Walsh 1712 Tom Cook 1975 Playford Assembly	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

Twenty Four New Country Dances for the Year 1715

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Portabella		Walsh 1715 Tom Cook 1979 Playford Assembly	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor

Twenty Four New Country Dances for the Year 1717

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Charmer ~ Cook		Nathaniel Kynaston 1717 Tom Cook 1991	Colin Hume	4 Couple Longways permutation: 3142

The English Dancing Master

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Daphne		John Playford 1651 Tom Cook Playford Assembly		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413
Halfe Hannikin ~ Cook		John Playford 1651 Tom Cook Playford Assembly	Colin Hume	Circle as many as will
The Shepherdess		John Playford 1651 Tom Cook Playford Assembly		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413

The Dancing Master, 3rd ed.

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Ginnie Pug		John Playford 1657 Tom Cook 1975		Duple Minor
Guinea Pig		John Playford 1657 Tom Cook 1975		Duple Minor
Strawberries and Cream		John Playford 1657 Tom Cook 1975		Duple Minor
The Twins		John Playford 1657 Tom Cook 1975		4 Couple Longways

The Dancing Master, 4th ed.

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Jamaica ~ Cook		John Playford 1670 Tom Cook	Colin Hume	4 Couple Longways
Wallingford House		John Playford 1670 Tom Cook 1979		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413

A new Additional Sheet to the Dancing Master

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Garter		Henry Playford 1688 Tom Cook ~1980		Duple Minor

Country Dances: Being a Composition Entirely New

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Lover's Luck ~ Cook		Thomas Bray 1699 Tom Cook 1979 Playford Assembly		Duple Minor

The Dancing Master, Vol. the Second

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Belgia Retriev'd		John Young 1710 Tom Cook 1979		Duple Minor
Salutation		John Young 1710 Tom Cook 1991		Duple Minor
Shawbury Park		John Young 1710 Tom Cook 1975	Odd Sundays Garage Band	Duple Minor
Belgia Retriev'd		John Young 1710 Tom Cook 1979		Duple Minor

Twenty four New Country Dances for the year 1711

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Beauteous Grove ~ Cook		Nathaniel Kynaston 1711 Tom Cook 1975	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Twenty Four New Country Dances for the Year 1711

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Despairing Lover		Nathaniel Kynaston 1711 Tom Cook 1979	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
Scotch Jemmy		Nathaniel Kynaston 1711 Tom Cook 1979		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Twenty Four New Country Dances for the Year 1716

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Flora's Fagarys		Nathaniel Kynaston 1716 Tom Cook 1975	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Flora's Vagaries ~ Cook		Nathaniel Kynaston 1716 Tom Cook 1975	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Jockey and Jenny		Nathaniel Kynaston 1716 Tom Cook 1975	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Kingston Hoy		Nathaniel Kynaston 1716 Tom Cook 1979		3 Couple Longways permutation: 312
Sylvia's Serenade		Nathaniel Kynaston 1716 Tom Cook 1979		3 Couple Longways permutation: 312

Twenty Four New Country Dances for the Year 1718

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Merry Salopians		Nathaniel Kynaston 1718 Tom Cook 1987 Playford Assembly	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 312

The Compleat Country Dancing-Master Book 2, 3rd Ed.

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Dam it ~ Cook		Walsh 1740 Tom Cook 1979		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, Vol. 1

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Perfections of Love ~ Cook		Wright 1740 Tom Cook 1979		Triple Minor
Perfections of Love ~ Williams		Wright 1740 Tom Cook 1979		Duple Minor

Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1772

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Installation		Thompson 1772 Tom Cook 1979 Playford Ball	Bare Necessities	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, Vol 3

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Fairy Prince		Thompson ~1773 Tom Cook 1979		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Number of dances	Number of versions	Number with music
42	42	21

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