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Listen to the Mockingbird
New England Dancing Masters
Item #:
9780990671626
Edited by Andy Davis, Peter Amidon and Mary Cay Brass
This collection contains 24 dances that have been time-tested
in classrooms and
at
community dances/. It includes longways dances, circle dances,
square dances
and contra dances. New
chapters on teaching dance in the classroom, building a sense
of community,
choosing partners, tips on calling, and creating new dances
with children are
also including, along with a
glossary, tune transcriptions, and a combined index for the
dancing found in
Chimes of Dunkirk and Listen to the
Mockingbird.
Book, 64 pages.
The companion recording features some of New
England's
finest dance
musicians playing all the music needed to teach the dances. The
reels, jigs, polka
and waltz are played dance length, and the four square dances
include singing calls on
the recording.
Dances include:
- Circle Dances:
- Circassian Circle Mixer
- Les Saluts
- The Vowel Dance
- Larry's Mixer
- Sicilian Circle Dances:
- Mariposa
- Roddy McCorley
- ZOM Out
- Square Dances:
- Listen to the Mockingbird
- Ocean Wave
- First Night Quadrille
- Butterfly Whirl
- Sheehan's Reel
- Shoot the Owl
- Contra Dances:
- A-Rovin'
- Ellen Green's Jig
- Aw Shucks
Creating New Dances With Children:
Flat Tire
St. Michael's Star
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