#John Playford

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John Playford/The Playfords, Strawberries and Cream I Garlic & Onions, 2023

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Under the new leadership of Oliver Cromwell and Puritans, the performing arts were sharply curtailed: playhouses were closed, and stern polemicists such as William Prynne declared theatrical entertainments 'effeminate,' 'lust provoking', and likely to 'corrupteth and depraveth the minde'.  Drawing on a deep current of Puritan and Calvinist loathing for theatre and for any exhibition of the human – and especially female – body, Prynne's views were hardly original.  'The whole bodie,' one writer had exclaimed in 1603, 'is abused to wantonnesse in dauncing...here is an artificiall grace, and artificiall pace, and artificiall face, and in euerie part a wicket art is added to increase the naturall filthinesse.'  When the ballet master John Playford published his book The English Dancing Master in 1651, he self-effacingly apologized for even raising the subject of dance, since 'these Times and the Nature of it do not agree.'

“Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet”

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Les Witches – Mr Lane’s Maggott Mr Lane's Maggott extrait de l'album Nobody's Jig des Witches, paru en 2002 sur le label Alpha. Interprétation de danses paru dans The English Dancing Master de John Playford paru en 1651.

[sonyacrow]

When you should be either writing job applications or packing up your stuff for a move, but instead you end up reading dance manuals from 1650′s. Whoopsie...

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Les Witches - Drive the Cold Winter Away / The Beggar Boy

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An Italian Rant - Les Witches

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Absolutely Beautiful  

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Paul O'Dette · Andrew Lawrence-King · David Douglass, Old Simon the King I English Country Dances - 17th Century Music from the Publications of John Playford, 1998

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sweet and ayry activity - tunes from playford's english dancing master

tracks:

1. newcastle - the folger consort ◦ 2. 5 playford tunes (the old mole, mill field, the wherligig, the whish, millison's jegg) - maddy prior & the carnival band ◦ 3. nottingham castle - estampie ◦ 4. cavalilly man - english ayres ◦ 5. old simon the king - david douglass, paul o'dette, & andrew lawrence-king ◦ 6. medley: heart's-ease, cuckolds all a-row, hockley in the hole - sirinu ◦ 7. ladie lie near mee/bobbing joan - musicians of shakespeare's globe ◦ 8. cold and raw (stingo) - june tabor ◦ 9. chelsey reach or buckingham house - the broadside band ◦ 10. the shaking of the sheets (the night-piece) - the baltimore consort ◦ 11. pawles wharfe - the english cornett and sackbut ensemble ◦ 12. staines morris - martin carthy & dave swarbrick ◦ 13. madison's whim/confess/half-hannikin - hesperus ◦ 14. kemp's jig - the folger consort ◦ 15. iantha - maddy prior & the carnival band ◦ 16. the rose is white, the rose is red (dargason) - june tabor ◦ 17. a scots rant - the baltimore consort ◦ 18. oranges and lemons - the playfords ◦ 19. mall peatley - tarleton's jig ◦ 20. my thing is my own (lilliburlero) - hesperus ◦ 21. greenwood & hunt the squirrel - toronto consort ◦ 22. on the cold ground/glory of the sun/kettledrum/paul's wharf/saturday night and sunday morn/johnny cock thy beaver - the dufay collective ◦ 23. grayes inne maske - the english cornett and sackbut ensemble ◦ 24. daphne - shira kammen ◦ 25. jenny pluck pears - the playfords ◦ 26. the queen's jigg - david douglass, paul o'dette, & andrew lawrence-king ◦ 27. medley: the whim, bobbing joe, goddesses, red house, grimstock - sirinu ◦ 28. seldom cleanly (upon a summer's time) - the city waites ◦ 29. nonsuch - tarleton's jig ◦ 30. woodycock - toronto consort ◦ 31. green goose fair - estampie ◦ 32. the female captain (ladies of london) - the city waites ◦ 33. indian queen/of noble race was shinkin - the dufay collective ◦ 34. mad robin - the broadside band ◦ 35. give me my yellow hose (peg-a-ramsey) - ewan maccoll ◦ 36. millison's jig - musicians of shakespeare's globe

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photo: Xavier Díaz-Latorre and Jordi Savall on a rehearsal in Globe Theater in London

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from John Playford's Cold And Raw, slowed x6

[musicwithoutborders]

John Playford/The Broadside Band, Epping Forest I English Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master 1651-1703, 1991