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 on the theme, which opened, according to Geneste, on 2 January 1730 at Lincoln's Inn Fields. Rich took up Weaver’s idea but incorporated more commedia dell’ arte elements into the proceedings. 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.
