Pride and Prejudice Vol IV
In the Fourth Volume in the Pride and Prejudice Collection we have brought together a selection of beautiful tunes and dances from 18th and 19th Century, the majority being from the period 1790 to 1815.
One of our dance Interpreters, Reg Battle, was lucky enough to be given a hitherto un-interpreted book of dances published in 1815; and we have included three of those dances.
We are pleased to introduce to you a new dance Interpreter, Peter Hoffmann from Germany, who brings us dances from collections published during the period of Jane Austen’s working life.
As in the previous Volumes, David Fleming-Williams has mostly used the tunes as they were originally printed for each dance, arranging them in a style which is just as easy to listen to as dance.
In the same manner, Reg Battle and Peter Hoffmann have re-interpreted some of the dances, trying to get back more closely to ‘how it might have been’, bearing in mind the expectations of today's dancers.
This is a Multi-Media CD - so if you have a computer you can see and print both the dance notations and the music notations. Also included are the original notations and interesting ‘tit-bits’, such as how the dance was performed in the TV or film production. The ‘Download’ version also includes the dances and music as ‘pdf’ files.
The Dances are:
The Duke of York’s Cottillion (Thompson 1791)
The Fandango (Thompson 1774)
A Fig for Bonaparte (Thompson 1804)
Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself (Kauntze 1795)
Greensleeves (Les Manches Vertes) (Feuillet 1706)
Jump Frogs Jump (Thompson 1804)
Lady Caroline Bertie (Unknown 1815)
The Militia (Thompson 1764)
Miss Farrens Whim (Tracy 1795)
Mrs Stewarts Reel (Tracy 1795)
The New German Waltz (Kauntze 1795)
Orange and Blue (Unknown 1815)
The Prince Regent (Unknown 1815)
Prince William of Glos’ter’s Waltz (Preston 1801)
The Toy (Button and Whitakers 1813)
We will down with the French (Thompson 1780)
Whaland’s Fancy (Skillern 1799)
The Whim of the Moment (Thompson 1791)
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Pride & Prejudice Vol IV
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Pride & Prejudice Vol IV
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