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22 May 08 - 10:14 AM (#2346849) Subject: Origins: Compleat Dancing Master From: irishenglish For the first time in awhile I played my cassette of Ashley Hutchings and John Kirkpatrick's Compleat Dancing Master. Can anyone tell me the origins of the spoken word segment called "Analysis Of Beauty." The cassette has no info on it whatsoever. I have seen the CD in print, but have yet to buy it. Thanks |
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22 May 08 - 11:08 AM (#2346881) Subject: RE: Origins: Compleat Dancing Master From: DMcG I have the original LP, but I believe it says very little as well. If I remember rightly, it is from William Hogarth's 'The Analysis of Beauty', 1754. |
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22 May 08 - 11:15 AM (#2346887) Subject: RE: Origins: Compleat Dancing Master From: Jack Blandiver The entire text is online at Hogarth : Analysis of Beauty. Enjoy! |
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22 May 08 - 11:20 AM (#2346889) Subject: RE: Origins: Compleat Dancing Master From: Def Shepard From The Compleat Dancing Master - Ashley Hutchings & John Kirkpatrick Michael Gough as William Hogarth (reading from Analysis of Beauty) The lines, which a number of people together form, in country dancing, make a delightful play upon the eye, especially when the whole figure is to be seen at one view as at the playhouse from a gallery. The beauty of this kind of "mystic dancing," as the poets term it, depends upon moving in a composed variety of lines, chiefly serpentine, governed by the principals of intricacy. The dances of barbarians are often represented without these movements, being only composed of wild skipping, jumping, and turning around or running backward and forward with convulsive shrugs and distorted gestures. One of the most pleasing movements in country dancing which answers to all the principles of varying at once, is what they call the "hey." William Hogarth -The Analysis of Beauty - Analysis of Beauty, William Hogarth |
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22 May 08 - 11:20 AM (#2346890) Subject: RE: Origins: Compleat Dancing Master From: Def Shepard ooops, cross posting *LOL* |
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22 May 08 - 11:21 AM (#2346891) Subject: RE: Origins: Compleat Dancing Master From: irishenglish Excellent, thank you all! That is my favorite of the spoken word passages on the album. |
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22 May 08 - 11:27 AM (#2346894) Subject: RE: Origins: Compleat Dancing Master From: Def Shepard Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. - Voltaire |
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22 May 08 - 01:33 PM (#2346983) Subject: RE: Origins: Compleat Dancing Master From: nutty The Dancing Master can be found on line HERE |
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23 May 08 - 02:52 AM (#2347425) Subject: RE: Origins: Compleat Dancing Master From: pavane I always wondered why Shepherd's Hey (Morris) doesn't actually have a Hey |