playford

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• - Mainly 17th and 18th century dances, in Knoxville Tennessee.
  
• - California-based dancers and musicians performing historical English country and Morris dances. Includes information about their performances, and reconstructions of some dances.
  
• - Descriptions of steps, and reconstructions of selected dances.
  
• - Virtual exhibition covering Playford's publications and influence, illustrated with items from the Library's collection.
  
• - Dancers and musicians who perform at renaissance faires in California. Includes a short introduction to the dances, and an opinion on bad dancers.
  
• - Information about rehearsals in California, plus descriptions of the dances from the first edition of Playford, with abbreviations expanded and spellings modernized.
  
• - Caller, teacher, musician and researcher based in Scotland. Information about dance groups in Edinburgh and Glasgow, music groups, and books and CDs for sale.
  
• - Annual Playford-style ball in Strafford, Vermont. Includes dance instructions for previous and upcoming balls.
  
• - HTML transcription of the second edition of Playford (1653), with scans of the original music.
  
• - The complete text of the first edition. Includes links to some of the music.
  
• - Information about balls from 1990 to 1999. Includes a collection of dance sheets.
  
• - Reconstructions of a selection of dances, mainly from the first edition.
  
• - Coded figures, facsimiles and other data for all of the 1,053 known dances published in various editions of Playford. Also includes some background information.
  
• - Article from The Letter of Dance. Describes the process of reconstructing The Bonny Bonny Broom.