{"id":1998,"date":"2025-01-04T16:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T15:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.histoiredebal.com\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2025-02-16T13:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T12:38:23","slug":"hambleton-round-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.histoiredebal.com\/en\/2025\/01\/04\/hambleton-round-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Hambleton Round O"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was 2020, I was confined (who wasn’t?), and I finally took some time to find the title of my earworm: Hambleton round O<\/em>. Here we go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Driving, heady and yet tinged with melancholy, this superb melody goes hand in hand with a cute dance. It’s also an opportunity to try out different adaptations for a longways <\/a>triple minor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me introduce : Hambleton Round O<\/em>. To listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being a French native speaker, I write in English as good as I can. Please let me know if you spot any error. thank you!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The title<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hambleton hills are located in the North of Yorkshire. Nowadays they are part of the North York Moors National Park.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sight of the moors from the Hambleton hills.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

That bucolic place hosted the Hambleton Royal Gold Cup, a horse race. That race goed back to at least the beginning of 18th century, and took place annually until 1811.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ce lieu bucolique accueillait aussi la Hambleton Royal Gold Cup, une course de chevaux. Celle-ci remonte au moins au d\u00e9but du XVIIe<\/sup> si\u00e8cle, et aura lieu chaque ann\u00e9e jusqu\u2019en 1811.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Round O” would be a corruption of the French rondeau <\/em>or the Italian rondo<\/em>. During the 18th century, rondo is a musical form built as a song, with a chorus and several verses: ABACAD… Very baroque, the rondeau becomes less fashionable in the next centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sources for Hambleton Round O<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hambleton Round O<\/em> is to be found in the canonical Dancing Master<\/em>, 15th<\/sup> \u00e9dition, 2nd<\/sup> volume (1713 or 1714). At that time, John Young runs the collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Walsh, a competitor, also published the dance in his New Country Dancing Master (2nd<\/sup> volume, c. 1719). Both version are identical. To be fair, Walsh plagiarises shamelessly Young’ book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1726, John Young published the same figures – and by that, I mean the exact same instructions – with another music and another title: Smith\u2019s round O<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 1726, John Young publie le m\u00eame encha\u00eenement de figures \u2013 au mot pr\u00e8s ! – avec une autre m\u00e9lodie et un autre titre : Smith\u2019s round O<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music and rythm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The music (hte first one) is a triple time hornpipe (3\/2), as the famous Mr Beveridge\u2019s Maggot<\/a>. Each bar counts three beats. That rythm, triple time<\/em>, was particularly popular during the first third of the 18th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To dance on that peculiar rythme, differents steps are possile. The simplest is to walk three equal steps, one of each beat of the music.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Francis Hayman, The Milkmaid’s Garland, or Humours of the May Day<\/em>, 1741-1742.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Hambleton Round O: choreography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hambleton Round O<\/em> is a longways triple minor set<\/a>. Three couples are thus involved in the choreography. But as per usual, couple 3 sits on the sidelines, while couple 1 leads every figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But which figures?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the original text:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first couple cast off, the man going the Hey with the third couple, and the woman with the second couple, then turn Hands in the second couple place; then the first woman changes place with the second man, and the first man do the same with the second woman, then Hands half round and turn single, then Right and Left into the second places.<\/em><\/p>\nJohn Young (\u00e9d.), The Dancing Master, Vol. 2 (15e Edition)<\/em>, Londres, 1713.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Reconstruction for Hambleton Round O<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Part A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1-2         Cple 1 cast off under the 2s. Cple 2 move up on second bar [progression]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3-6         M1 hey Cple 3 while<\/strong> L1 hey Cple 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7-8         Cple 1 partners joins in the 2nd place and 2-hands turn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part B<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 W1 & M2 exchange place, crossing right shoulder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 M1 & W2 idem<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 Cples 1 et 2 1\/2 circle to Left<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 Cples 1 and 2 turn single on Left shoulder (= to the outside)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    5-8         Couples 1 and 2 circular hey (4 changes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Remarks :<\/p>\n\n\n\n