Alman Buggins [IT] | Couples in procession Intermediate |
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| I | A1 | 1-4 | | 2 Singles on left, right | | | | 7 Measure Sicilia Almaine./ | Two singles and |
| | 5-8 | | Double on left | | | | a double forwards, and | |
| | 9-10 | | Single back on right | | | | a single back |
| A2 | 1-10 | | Repeat A1; Face partner | | | | twice the 1st part and | the second time part hands and turne face to face./ | |
| B1 | 1-4 | | Set left and right | | | | 2nd pt, Then 2 single sydes the first with the left legg, the second | with the right, Then |
| | 5-8 | | Reverence left | | | | Honour with the | left Legg and close againe, Then | |
| B2 | 1-8 | | Trade places, doing 2 Singles on left, right and a Double on left (pass your partner with the singles, and turn to face your partner with the doubles) | | | | change places with 2 singles and | a double over into each others places & | |
| C1 | 1-4 | | Reverence right | | | | turne all face to face, and Honour with | the right legg. |
| | 5-6 | | Single forward on right (toward partner) | | | | Then meet with 2 | stepps and |
| | 7-8 | | Embrace | | | | embrace, |
| B3 | | | Repeat B1+B2+C1 (returning to original place) | | | | Doe all this 2d part step for step into your owne places./ |
| B4 | | | |
| C2 | | | |
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Reconstruction is by Peter and Janelle Durham. Text is from Wilson’s transcription of IT.
Notes
Sources. Appears in all seven manuscripts as the seventh Old Measure. No music is known to survive from period.
Reconstruction. The sources differ on the description of the initial singles. Two sources specify “singles side”, and the others do not specify, but may imply the singles and double all travel forward. We have chosen this latter interpretation because it more closely echoes the processional section that begins the other dances.
History. Ward (1993) posits that this dance probably dates from 1565-6 when “Cecilia, sister of Eric, King of Sweden… visited England as the guest of Elizabeth.”
Recordings. Dances from the Inns of Court: 1 and 4 repeats. Musick for Dauncinge: 2 repeats, lively pace, fine sound. Dances from the Courts of Europe: 3 repeats, lively pace, fine sound, but reconstruction is different (C1 embrace is followed by a final figure composed only of the B2 figure and C1 1-4, and there is not a second embrace).