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I felt that it might be helpful to count the occurance of the dance steps and patterns mentioned in the dances. While doing the count I changed from just counting the words to counting the occurances of a step or movement in the dance. The following table is the result. |
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403 |
Single |
8 |
Double |
16 |
Flowerdelice |
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19 |
Brawle |
39 |
Torne, half turn |
5 |
Meve, move |
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40 |
Trett |
16 |
Change places |
2 |
Hertt |
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54 |
Retrett |
6 |
Throw |
1 |
Horne pepy |
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5 |
Obeysaunce |
4 |
Lepe |
22 |
Rakis |
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Expanding the patterns we know and converting some of the movements provides a better indication of the occurance of the usual steps. The flourdelice contains 2 doubles and 3 singles. In the dances so far interpreted “turns”, “changing places” and “throws” take two bars so are probably a double. This gives a total number of singles and doubles as below. |
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Single |
451 |
Double |
101 |
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