[Bg-dance] Half Hannikin

Tim McDaniel tmcd at panix.com
Fri May 18 15:02:03 PDT 2012


On Fri, 18 May 2012, Charlene Charette <charlene281 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As for the title, I had some info on that, but of course can't find
> the book right now. Apparently after the move a few of my dance
> books got separated from the rest.

I got the impression that many Playford dances were named for the
tune?

The dance name can't be a version of "half hand again", because the
1.5 turn is from John Millar's version in the 1980s, which is so not
in Playford.  If I remember right from when I looked, at least the
"Hannekin" word is a straightforward medieval English name, a
diminutive of "Henry" plus another diminutive suffix "-kin".

Denyel Lincoln
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com



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