The vast majority of dances performed by the Merrie Pryanksters were collected by John Playford and published in his seminal work The English Dancing Master. The first version was published in 1651, and many of the dances here are from that collection.
This page will be updated with links to the dances (as Pryanksters does them), as well as to the music. Stay tuned! 🙂
Mild
- Appley House
- Ashford Reunion
- Black Nag
- Childgrove
- Christchurch Bells
- Gathering Peascods
- Geud Man of Ballangigh
- Heart’s Ease
- Hyde Park
- Jenny Pluck Pears
- Rufty Tufty
- Sellinger’s Round
Medium
- Bobbing Joe
- Chestnut
- Cuckolds All a Row
- Dargason
- Fine Companion
- Grimstock
- If All the World were Paper
- Mage on a Cree
- The Merry, Merry Milkmaids
- Night Peece
- Picking of Sticks
Spicy
- Argeers
- Confesse
- Fain I Would
- Greenwood
- Health/Parsons
- The Health
- Parson’s Farewell
- The Irish Lady
- Kettle Drum
- Maiden Lane
- Newcastle
- Saint Martin’s
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morn
- Scotch Cap
- Stingo
- 29th of May
- Whirligig
Morris
- Ragged Crow
- Tinner’s Rabbots