Cushion Dance (3) (The)

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Theme code Index	3311 3311
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	C
Accidental	NONE
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABBCCDD
Editor/Compiler	Biography:James Merryweather
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Merryweather's Tunes for the English Bagpipe
Tune and/or Page number	p. 30
Year of publication/Date of MS	1989
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CUSHION DANCE [3], THE. English, Country Dance (6/8 time). C Major/A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCD. The melody and dance date to the late 16th century. "The Cushion Dance" was a Barley Brake ("a blatant, if rather silly, mating display", says Merryweater {1989. See also the air "Barley-Break" for more information}), a dance game in which in which the men chose a partner by laying a cushion on the floor before the woman, upon which she would kneel and receive a kiss. She would then arise, take up the cushion, and the couple would dance while singing:

Prinkum-prnkum is a fine dance,
And shall we go dance again.
Once again and once again,
And shall we go dance again.

Printed source: Merryweather (Merryweather's Tunes for the English Bagpipe), 1989; p. 30.

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