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This category contains 12 sites: - Barleycorn Country Dancers - Dancers and musicians who perform at renaissance faires in California. Includes a short introduction to the dances, and an opinion on bad dancers.
- Dafydd's Collection of Playford's English Country Dances - Reconstructions of a selection of dances, mainly from the first edition.
- Estienne's Country Dance Book - Descriptions of steps, and reconstructions of selected dances.
- John Playford - Brief biography, and two dances with the tunes in MIDI format.
- Lark in the Morn - Mainly 17th and 18th century dances, in Knoxville Tennessee.
- Merri Pryanksters - Information about rehearsals in California, plus descriptions of the dances from the first edition of Playford, with abbreviations expanded and spellings modernized.
- New York Playford Ball - Information about balls from 1990 to 1999. Includes a collection of dance sheets.
- Reconstructing an English Country Dance from Playford - Article from The Letter of Dance. Describes the process of reconstructing The Bonny Bonny Broom.
- The Dancing Master - HTML transcription of the second edition of Playford (1653), with scans of the original music.
- The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium - Coded figures, facsimiles and other data for all of the 1,053 known dances published in various editions of Playford. Also includes some background information.
- The English Dancing Master by John Playford 1651 - The complete text of the first edition. Includes links to some of the music.
- The Strafford Ball - Annual Playford-style ball in Strafford, Vermont. Includes dance instructions for previous and upcoming balls.
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