Description

Album 4 – The Toddler

The player above allows you to hear every song on the album – click on “play” (4), “forward” (:) or “backward”(9). To buy a track or the full album for download on Bandcamp: click on “buy”.

17 Tracks :

• Enfield Wash
• Old Noll’s Jig
• Black Almain
• Mad Robin
• Bonny Cate
• Slaughter House
• Nobody’s Jig
• Lord Byron’s Maggot
• The Toddler
• Doway
• Nancy’s Fancy
• Northdown Waltz
• Dorset Triumph
• Ormond House
• Greenwich Park
• The Country Farmer
• Vienna

The musics of this 4th Chestnut album correspond to the dances described in the brochure 4 – The Toddler (EN) and also available for download here.

Longways for as many as will are the very heart of a country dance ball. Just like mixers they draw together people who do not know one another and might not otherwise dance together, but they are far more elaborate. Progressing up and down the set makes the dance interesting; as the dancers repeat the figures, they get over the initial difficulties and eventually take pleasure in recreating each figure with new neighbours. CHESTNUT and the Papa Richard musicians are happy to present this new selection of 17 tunes for dancing brought together in this 4th Chestnut album. Except for The Toddler and Black Almain, all are “longways duple (double?) or triple minor set”, most of them taken from different editions of the Dancing Master. It was not easy to make a choice among so many enticing possibilities. What should be dropped? We tried to take into account the needs of newcomers to the repertoire as well as of experienced dancers familiar with the sequences. We chose dances which offer a contrast in atmosphere and rhythm, presenting a representative sample of the different sequences used in progression dances. But above all we let ourselves be guided by the beauty and variety of the music, in carefully choosing the instruments which would best enhance the poetry unique to each dance.