Princess Katie

Title: Princess Katie

Level: 3

Date: May 29, 2023

Formation: 3 couple longways

Time Sig: 3/2 Key: Dm

Original Source: "Notes On Writing An English Country Dance: Creating Princess Katie", article in the spring 2024 CDSS Newsmagazine:
https://cdss.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/cdss-news-magazine/CDSS-News-Spring-2024.pdf#page=10

Tune: Tune: Rondeau from "Abdelazar", Henry Purcell arranged by Jean Monroe (2021) and recorded in Boston, MA.
https://cdss.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/cdss-news-magazine/Princess-Katie.mp3

The music ("Abdelazar") is also widely known for its use in Benjamin Britten's "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra," Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell, op. 34.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vbvhU22uAM

Choreographer: William Brearley

Caller: William Brearley

Musicians: Jean Monroe (piano), Eleanor Lincoln (violin), Cécile Leroy (cello)

Recordings: https://cdss.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/cdss-news-magazine/Princess-Katie.mp3

Instructions: https://cdss.org/princess-katie

Venue: Montague Common Hall, Montague MA, May 29, 2023.

Event: A special one-time event.

Notes:

For sheet music, audio recording, and extra notes on the dance instructions, See
https://cdss.org/princess-katie

Philippe Callens also wrote a dance to this tune, Moniek’s Maggot (1990), published in Purcell’s Dancing Master, by Nicolas Broadbridge & Marjorie K. Fennessy, 1997.

When I first heard this beautiful, stately tune, "A Postcard to Henry Purcell" on the soundtrack for the movie "Pride & Prejudice, I imagined doing an elegant English country dance to it.
Soundtrack - Pride and Prejudice - A Postcard To Henry Purcell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ouMlUZt9DI

(It was only much later I discovered that Philippe Callens had already written a dance to this tune, Moniek’s Maggot (1990), published in Purcell’s Dancing Master, by Nicolas Broadbridge & Marjorie K. Fennessy, 1997.)

I asked caller William Brearley to try writing a dance to the tune and musician Jean Monroe to do an arrangement suitable for an English country dance. Fortunately, they both agreed, worked on it together and did a superb job.

I'm also very grateful to the dancers who worked hard on getting the timing right and danced with precision and flair.

Dancers: William Brearley, Katie Sanger, Steve & Jeannette Sargent, Paul and Marcelle Lipke

Lex Hamilton, my audio engineer/consultant, removed the 'boomy' bass sound from the original recording.

Re: the coda

If a venue has a problem accommodating 6 dancers abreast in the coda, William is OK with your adapting the coda to fit the space.

Paul Lipke offered some potential coda alternatives:

There are various ways everyone could cast or cloverleaf after the left hand ½ way turn, and end up with the 1s facing up, and the 2s and 3s below them in a line of four, also facing up for the step right and honor.

Final positions:

11
3223

or

11
2332

Тэги:

#Princess_Katie #Abdelazar #Henry_Purcell #Pride_and_Prejudice #Jane_Austen #Jean_Monroe_(piano) #Eleanor_Lincoln_(violin) #Cécile_Leroy_(cello) #William_Brearley #Katie_Sanger #Steve_Sargent #Paul_Lipke #Marcelle_Lipke #Jeannette_Sargent #A_Postcard_to_Henry_Purcell #Don_W._F._Bell

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