Birthday Branle Contents Dance Index Santa Barbara Winter Dreams Ball ECD Tutorial About Help Recent Additions Dance Scans Santa Barbara Country Dances Birthday Branle Birthday Branle is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Gary Roodman (website) in 2008 and published in Odd Calculated Figures. It is a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. In this dance the couples are permuted by: 231. The minor set lasts 48 bars. It is in the key: G major. Someone thought this dance was Intermediate / Hard. The tune, also called Birthday Branle, was composed by Jonathan Jensen and performed by Doug Creighton, Erica Morse, Gene Murrow and Peter Barnes on the album Band of Friends. The animation plays at 107 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance is slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily (no music plays during this slow set). Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set. The dance contains the following figures: set, turn single, circle, cast, lead, hands across, hey, rights and lefts (and probably others). If you find what you believe to be a mistake in this animation, please leave a comment on youtube explaining what you believe to be wrong. If I agree with you I shall do my best to fix it. < Prev Top Next > The dance is copyright © 2008 by Gary Roodman. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2020 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This website is copyright © 2021,2022 by George W. Williams V My work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Most of the dances have more restrictive licensing, see my notes on copyright, the individual dance pages should mention when some rights are waived.