Dances with a Difference, Volume 5

Dartington The Clocks Go Back Tonight New York Times Elegy Northbourne Hop English Breakfast Tea Old Friends and New Tea Up! The Amherst Assembly Thursday Night Flash Star of David Renata Round Hill Wedding The Graduate Karen's Tuba Well Done, Brenda Centre of Friends Gold for Brenda Catdancer Garden City Square True Britannia The Last of England Good Turns No Clapping! Midwinter Mr Handel's Minuet The Clocks Go Forward Tonight Together Megalomania

Corrections

Northbourne Hop — page 6

You are supposed to join hands in the lines.

In bar 4 of the A-music, everything but the last note should be moved up a third, so the melody note is F# not D.  Click here for a corrected version of the tune.

Old Friends and New — page 7

The B music should start A C C D C and then F in bar 2, rather than A E E F E and then A in bar 2.

Star of David — page 10

The dancing right shoulder round someone in A1 and A2 is until you are facing in — don't go all the way round.

True Brittania — page 21

The D music in 2:2 time is for the last time through the dance.

Good Turns — page 22

It's a standard progression (2-3-1), not a reverse progression.

Midwinter — page 24

Bar 7 of the B-music needs crotchet G and B after the minim G and an octave below it.

The Clocks go Forward Tonight — page 26

What I meant in B1/B2 is that the reel starts 3-2-1, you get back to these positions and then the threes and twos do one more change to finish 2-3-1, which is a standard progression in England.

The Clocks Go Back Tonight — page 27

Add a time signature of 2:2, and the sharp in the key signature of the second line.

Tea Up!  — page 32

A1 is like the start of a “strip the willow” from both ends.  It should be danced with a step-hop all the way through, not just in B2.

Elegy — page 29

In bar 8 of the B music the last two notes should be A, B, not F, G.

English Breakfast Tea — page 30:   In C2, “Men cross left shoulder” means “cast left shoulder round each other”.

Garden City Square — page 40

I've been asked to clarify that after the left-hand turn ¾ in the third figure B1 the ladies move anti-clockwise and the men move clockwise in the circular hey.  In B2 it's the other way.

No Clapping!  — page 44

The note should say Cary Ravitz, not Gary Ravitz.  The sharp in the key signature of the A music shouldn't be there, but as there aren't any F's in the tune it doesn't matter!

Megalomania — page 48

Yes I did mean that G# in bar 5 of the B-music — but I've missed out an F# in bar 7.

January 2002