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T: Cynthia's Waltz
C: Jonathan Jensen
O: Baltimore, Maryland
%R: waltz
Z: Collected and edited 2014 by John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
B: GEMS The Best of the Country Dance and Song Society Diamond Jubilee Music, Dance and Song Contest 1993 p.40
P: Three couple longways set
K: D
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%% A1:
%%  1-8  Circle six-hands to the left.
%%  9-16 Circle six hands to the right, back to place.
%% A2:
%%  1-8  Hey on opposite side, 1st couple crossing through middle place to begin.
%%  1-8  Hey on own side, 1st couple crossing again through middle place.
%% B1:
%%  1-8  1st couple and 2nd couple double figure eight, 1st couple cross down
%% ___   through the center, 2nd couple dance up the outside to start.
%%  9-10 1st couple and 2nd couple right hands across halfway.
%% 11-16 1st couple and 3rd couple left hands across once and a half. (Set is
%% _____ now in 2-3-1 order, 1st couple proper, 2nd and 3rd couples improper.)
%% B2:
%%  1-4  1st couple and 3rd couple half poussette, men pushing to start.
%%  5-8  1st and 2nd couple half poussette, women pushing to start.
%%  9-16 1st couple join in ballroom position and waltz down the middle to 3rd place.
%%     -- while --
%%  9-12 2nd and 3rd couple wait.
%% 13-14 2nd and 3rd couples move up.
%% 15-16 2nd and 3rd couples turn with two hands halfway.
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%%center Notes
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%% The author notes, "The circles in A1 need not be only once around. There is
%% enough music to make big, graceful, open circles, moving once and a half around."
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%% The dance was written for Cynthia Stenger, on the occasion [of] her wedding to the author.
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