Walpole Cottage (England)

Walpole Cottage

England

These notes ©2016, Andrew Carnie. Originally choreographed in 1963 by Pat Shaw in honor of Grace Duff Meikle and Leonie Morris, whose home in Chipstead Surrey was called Walpole Cottage.

Music:

• EP116
• Hold the Mustard. English Country Dance Favorites
• Assembly Players. Walpole Cottage
• English Folk Dance and Song Society. Welcome to the Dance
• Ring O' Bells Band: English Country Dance Prty
• The Falconers. Community Dances Manual
• http://www.nicolasbroadbridge.com/Walpole_Cottage.html
• https://store.cdss.org/product/308-walpole-cottage-tunes-and-dances-by-pat-shaw

Meter: 2/4
Formation:  Sicilian Circle with trios of people facing another trio, in spokes of a wheel around the room.

O = Outside (Furthest from center in the trio), I = Inside (closest to center), M = middle person in the trio. Not necessarily a M, although traditional it was.

                     O2  >   <  O1 

                     M2  >   <  M1

                     I2  >   <  I1

O1  M1  I1                                I2   M2   O2

v   v   v         center of the room       v    v    v

ʌ   ʌ   ʌ                                  ʌ    ʌ    ʌ

O2  M2  I2           I1 >   < I2           I1   M1   O1  
                     M1 >   < M2

                     O1 >   < O2
Introduction: 2 beats, no action

Part 1 Greeting (done each time through the dance)

Bars 1-4: Advance and Retire in lines of three facing the other trio.

Part 2: Contra Corners (A Music)

Bars 1-2: M1 and M2, turn each other by the R,
Bars 3-4: Then turn 1st corners, by the L  (M1 turns O2, M2 turns I1)
Bars 5-8: M1 and M2 turn each other by the R, and then turn 2nd corner's by the L (M1 turns I2, and M2 turns O1)
Bars 9-12: M1 and M2 turn each other by the R, and then turn own left hand partner by the L (M1 turns I1, M2 turns O2)
Bars 13-16:: M1 and M2 turn each other by the R, and then turn own right hand partner by the L (M1 turns O1, M2 turns I2)

Part 3: Hands across and Reel for 3 (B Music)

Bars 1-4: O1, O2, I1, I2, do a R hands across (R hand star), 1/2 way. Middles step out of the way.
Bars 5-8: same 4 do a L hands across (L hand star), 1/2 way
Bars 9-16: Do a R shoulder reel (hay) for 3 with own trio. M passes R shoulder with own right hand partner

Part 4: Forward and Back, Circle, Baskets (C Music)

Bars 1-4: Advance and Retire facing opposite Trio
Bars 5-8: Circle 6 1/2 across
Bars 9-12: Advance and Retire facing opposite Trio
Bars 13-16: With own trio, get into a back basket in a tight mini-circle and using a buzz step, swing around. Open up facing original direction and facing a new trio.  (If you like you can open with a new center so as to give some variety to who gets to do the contra corners)

Other Notes on the web

• http://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Walpole_Cottage
• http://www.bacds.org/events/playfordball2000/dances/dancelist.html#Walpole
• http://www.folkdance.com/LDNotations/WalpoleCottage1975LD.pdf
• http://www.patshaw.info/dances/#walpole

Bill and Karen Faust's Fayetteville Video

Important note. For some reason, the recording used in this video lacks the 4 bar introduction the first time through and appends it to the end. So the dancers are 4 bars off the ABC structure of the music (i.e the musical phrasing doesn't align with the dance phrasing that I've listed above). Some of the other videos below have the dance and musical phrasing correctly lined up. 

Other Videos on the web

• http://argonneifd.blogspot.com/2015/09/oconomowoc-video-clips-walpole-cottage.html

Sheet Music

• Page, Ralph (1971) Northern Junket, vol. 10, No. 7, March 1971; p. 2

Other Sources

• Shaw, Pat and Marjorie Fennessy (1986b) The Pat Shaw Collection Vol 3 - Dances. KAAP press
• Barclay, Les and Ian Jones (2015) Community Dances Manual. Revised Edition. English Folk Dance and Song Society.
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