BackThe Hey



An in-depth study of the Hey as described in “The Dancing Master” of John Playford, Henry Playford and John Young, and interpreted by Cecil Sharp and others.

This figure gets mentioned a lot in Playford and other collections, so I thought it was about time I looked into it.  I'm working hard on this page — please be patient!  It's currently over 18,000 words and I'm more than two-thirds through.  I originally thought it should be available mid-April, since according to Scott Pfitzinger at playforddances.com/steps/hey there are 50 or so dances in The Dancing Master involving a Hey.  But then I checked Bob Keller's index at www.cdss.org/elibrary/dancing-master/Title/BrowTitl.htm and discovered that there are 110 (plus one wrongly coded), so I have twice as much work as I expected!