Annotation:Perseus and Andromeda
X: 1 T:Persues [sic] and Andromeda. PFD3.085 W:Longways for as many as will. L:1/4 B:Playford, Dancing Master Vol 3, 2nd Ed, c1726 Z:village music project Mike Hicken 2015 Q:1/2=100 M:3/2 K:Dm f e/f/ g/f/e/d/ ^c2|AdAeAf|Aa2 g/f/ ed|A>B AGFD|| A2 F/G/A/B/ AF|G2 E/F/G/A/ FD|d2 f/g/ af e/d/|Ad2AFD|] W: W: Note: Each Strain is to be Play'd twice over. W: W: The first Man cast off, and turn the third Woman, and come up into his own place again .| W: The first Woman do the same with the third Man :| Then the first Couple cast behind the second W: Couple and Foot it, then lead thro' the third Couple and cast into the second Couples place .| Then W: back to back and Foot it, then lead thro' the third Couple and cast into the second Couples place :|
PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA. English, Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Perseus and Andromeda" was the name of two different early 18th century ballets produced due to a rivalry between John Rich at Lincoln's Inn Fields and John Weaver (1673-1760) at Drury Lane. Weaver, an English dancer, dancing master and choreographer, is often regarded as the father of English ballet and of English pantomime. His The Shipwreck; or Perseus and Andromeda (1717) was produced as an afterpiece at Drury Lane on 15 Nov. 1728. Rich then commissioned Theobald for a version of the word, which opened, according to Geneste, on 2 January 1730 at Lincoln's Inn Fields. Although the performance was filled with sensational effects and grotesque costuming, which critics (including Weaver) detested, it was a success because John Rich, dancing under the name of Lun, became quite popular for his dancing as Harlequin.
