Victoria English Country Dance Society

Dance Caller Resources

VECDS callers may request posting of material thought useful for this page. While it will likely become somewhat structured, it is starting as an Omnium Gatherum of sorts.

Vic ECD Caller schedule 2011.05 [22 kb PDF]

Music for VECDS callers

Music: When considering inclusion of a dance in one's program it is nice to ensure that our lovely musicians have the music available, to support the dance and of course for practise prior.

The club holds copies of Peter Barnes books of music for ECD Vol. I & II as well as The Playford Ball - 103 Early English Country Dances. There is also a list of local copies of notation held by our musicans for dances we often do.

Dance info

Vic ECD Caller / Dance grid [22 kb PDF]

Table of 500 dances with name, set format, key and tempo from Scott & Jenny's English Country Dance list. Locally a different musical key may be used for some dances. Check with the musicans to determine if it has been transcribed.

Will Linden has his own site with archives of the CDNY New York Playford Ball programs. These include dance directions and music notiation including ABC format.

CDSS has books, you may wish to check out the ECD offerings. They also have several on-line libraries of folk and country dance, many hosted at the Univ. of New Hampshire. One ECD oriented one is the The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium, by Robert M. Keller. It has dance direction entries with coded figures I'm working on decoding.

More soon

To be placed on our Caller e-mail list please contact Van Williams at a dance evening

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Updated 2011.05.18