Dancing Round The Maypole

Maypole and Country Dance Instruction Manual and CD

Diana Campbell Jewitt

Learn how to teach maypole and country dancing with this self-teach manual

Includes:

• 10 maypole dance figures, a ribbon dance and 12 country dances fully illustrated with photographs and diagrams, and a teaching script for the absolute beginner
• Helpful tips and suggestions
• Historical information and background to the dances
• Tunes for the dances
• Full instructions on how to make your own wooden maypole

Music on the accompanying CD by Light Fantastic & Devil Among The Tailors

Helen Morris; Vic Godrich; Leigh Dyer; Rachel Taylor; David Bradley

1. Introduction to Traditional Music Structures
2. Entrance: May Day: Miss McLeod's
3. Taking the Ribbons: Speed the Plough
4. Barber's Pole: Sweets of May
5. Single or Double Plait In and Out the Windows: Kitty McGee
6. Spider's Web: Twenty Ninth of May
7. Gypsy's Tent: Haste to the Wedding, Hundred Pipers
8. Three in Hand: Hey Ding a Ding, Moll O' the Wood
9. Additional Maypole Music: Merry Month of May
10. Lead off: May Day: Miss McLeod's

11. Black Jack: Black Jack
12. French Wedding: La Bastringue, Les Fraises et les Framboises
13. Green Stockings: New Rigged Ship, Pet of the Pipers
14. Lucky Seven: Ap Shenkin, The Flight, The Quaker's Wife
15. Cicassian Circle: Good Humour, The Irish Washerwoman
16. Russian Ballet: Lady Hepburn Belches, The British Grenadiers
17. Tom Pate: The Nutting Girl, The Tempest
18. Ffarwel Marion: The Greenwood Tree, Cease your Funning
19. Pines Parade: Heel and Toe Polka, Hunt the Squirrel
20. Ideal Schottische: Shetland Polka, Laddie
21. Danish Double Quadrille: Double Quadrille, Dublebska Polka, Honey Harbour, Double Quadrille
22. Wring Out the Dishrag: Hestleyside Ride, Liverpool Hornpipe 

Book and CD can be bought as seperate items:

Dancing Round the Maypole Book

Dancing Round the Maypole CD

ISBN: 978-0-85418-189-6

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