Láánsas treséér padáás - the third part of láánsas (lancers)

This is an extract of an archival recording and is being uploaded here by Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan for educational and research purposes. The extract comes from an ethnographic recording by Ian Russell Smith and archived in the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) at the URL: https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/IRS01/items/SLP13 and is being uploaded here with permission from the collector.

Original notes as follows (square parentheses added):
Sri Lanka Portuguese music. Recorded 26/5/74, Batticaloa. Announcer Ronald Rosairo (born 1906). 
Clarence Hendrick – leader & violin
Monica Ockersz – violin
Freddy Sellers [Sellar] - mandolin
Festus Peters – guitar
Ivo [Iva] Andrado – drum

Additional notes:
Láánsas (lancers) is one of the main dances performed by Portuguese Burghers and is a creolised quadrille made up of five padáás (parts or figures). This audio contains the music accompanying the third padáás as well as the start of the fourth padáás. The third padáás is interesting because it features a moment when all the instruments slow down and stop playing and then abruptly start again. This is a feature not found it one parts of láánsas and rarely, if ever, encountered in káfriinha, the other main Portuguese Burgher dance. The music for Láánsas appears to have a relationship with the music accompanying the early 19th century quadrille dance Lancers, also known as Duval's Second Set. 

This extract has been uploaded specifically as an interlude to accompany the chapter 'Láánsas parmi nupooy: Squaring the circle on the "difficult" Portuguese lancers" by Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan in the book 'Supporting vulnerable traditions: Keeping it going in contexts of continuity and change' edited by Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan (Routledge, in preparation). Please check here for further details about the chapter publication or visit https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mahesh-Radhakrishnan-2 or www.music-dance-culture.com

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