The Compleat Dancing Master

by Ashley Hutchings & John Kirkpatrick

The Compleat Dancing Master cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1974
  • Label: Island
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.85/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The seventeen tracks draw their tunes from John Playford's 'The English Dancing Master', first published in 1651. Spoken readings from Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens and others are interleaved with the dances, and the sessions include Fairport Convention's Simon Nicol and Dave Mattacks.

Genres

Descriptors: traditional, acoustic, storytelling, folk, dance

Tracklist

  1. The Beginning Of The World
  2. Geoffrey Chaucer (Reading From 'The Romaunt Of The Rose')
  3. Stanpipes / Trotto
  4. Puritan William Prynne (Reading From The 'Histriomastrix')
  5. Nonesuch / Cuckolds All Awry
  6. The Dashing White Sergeant / The Devil Among The Tailors
  7. Beatrice (In Shakepeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing')
  8. Haste To The Wedding / The Triumph / Off She Goes
  9. William Hogarth (Reading From 'Analysis Of Beauty')
  10. Long Odds / Mr. Cosgill's Delight
  11. Charles Dickens (Reading From 'Sketches By Boz')
  12. Bonny Breakfast / Double Lead Through
  13. Barley Break / Cushion Dance
  14. Arbeau And Capriol (From 'Orchesographie')
  15. The Hare's Maggot
  16. Sir Roger De Coverley

Credits

  • Eddy Gorecki - plated by

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