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  • I wonder whether the instruments played by the musicians are the same as those mimed on screen as the rarely played vox humana appears (a military tenor oboe of the period and mainly used outside the military in west gallery bands which might well have performed for social functions). Charles Spicer of the Mellstock Band plays one in someof their recordings but told me that the musical 'rewards' were not worth the effort expended. If it was actually played here I wonder who was the performer?

  • @Majestchan The name is Mr Beveridge's Maggot as far as I'm aware. The song and dance went together, under the same name.

  • Hi, I just want to ask what's the name of the music. Anyone?

  • @Majestchan "Mr. Beveridge's Maggot," apparently.

  • My favourite adaptation (I have the DVD playing now). Only one thing: the music is from Playford's Traditional Dances which was published a century earlier. Even at country Assemblies this would have been replaced by more contemporary tunes. I still like it though ;)

  • @sheelz321 If i think better, it might have been played at the Netherfield ball, since aristocrats portrayed in Ms Austen's novels seemed pretty conservative in certain ways. This scene and dance have always impressed me and i love the sound of footsteps in the coreography at the beginning and ending, it adds to the scene's and song's intensity XD

  • Absolutely agree Viv. Speaking as someone who has trouble in walking in a straight line when chewing a toffee, they have my complete admiration.

  • Lovely video.Best adaption of the book. Regency periode certainly was admireable for its elegance in manners and modesty. God Bless.

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  • I'm in awe when I see such dancing! They're acting, delivering their lines, all while dancing perfectly. They are simply amazing, both Lizzie and Darcy.

  • @mwknotts OH MY GOD YOU MADE MY LIFE

  • Nine people who watched this video are named Mr Wickham.

  • HOT

  • does anyone know where i can get a copy of this version of this song?

    thanks :)

    i want it for my year 12 media project

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  • @JANE42ME64 thankyou!!

  • Actors, their play, music, make-up, costumes, scenography, choreography... this is definitely the best adaptation of Pride & Prejudice of all time!

  • Recently finished the novel and this mini-series in my literature class, fell in love with the story, and think it's better than most of the modern "love" tales.

  • Im in my lower 20's and I had a few friends (at different times) watch this version with me and they either fell asleep or made me put in another movie. In order for these amazing stories/movies to not be ruined for me, I will only watch them with one other person: my mom. These love stories are like no other and I refuse to put today's trashy love stories above these. Mr. Darcy is amazing and I love Lizzy's intelligence and wit!

  • please, where can i find this music?

    ive searched all over the internet but can't find this version?

  • Perfectly Enchanting

  • I just love this dance....... perfect

  • i'm fifteen years old and my mates love reading "fashionable" books about vampires. I've read them too,but they are nothing according to this AWESOME book and adaptation.Pride and Prejudice will never disappear,it's an eternal writing.

  • The eye contact in this scene is phenomenal. For me, this ideally how English Country dancing should always be. The form and the intense eye contact. Beautiful.

  • Well they must be one's, however I am baffled at how they never messed up the set when they were chatting with old what's his name about the dance and the certain exciting things . . . If we pass this long in our steps everyone around us would be exceedingly unhappy, LOL. Also they never seem to get to the end.

  • I am just learning this dance and learning part 2 (second couple placing) tonight.. can't wait.. such an amazing dance and music :D

  • @margo3883 & @karamesinaika : This "Mr Playford" had his first name Henry and was the son of John Playford who published the "English Dancing Master" in 1651, the fundamenatal manual of English Country Dance with 18 editions up to 1728. The 9th edition from 1695, from that this dance has been taken, was the most successful one, perhaps the most successful dance-book in history. Both John and Henry Playford were never composers, but only publishers. The tune is anonymous !

  • @margo3883 & @karamesinaika: If You want to watch something curious, please watch "Volkstanzgruppe Untermais" by user angelrecords01. You see some folks in Tyrolian costumes and dirndl dresses, and they held a great annual dance every November in their hometown Merano in South Tyrol, Italy. Can You imagine that I by myself tought them THIS DANCE to get a highlight in their dance event. But this kind of dance needs some mpore work and training, and a few weeks later everything was forgotten...

  • @alpenfrauchen Thanks !

  • @alpenfrauchen Well, the regency ball you tought them was much better than the ones they actually danced. I like folk music - even found Celtic folk dance fascinating- yet Tyrol dance was just.....funny !!!

  • Lovely way of showing the palpable friction and the intellectual argument wile at the same time they're doing something physically wonderfully harmonious :)

  • i love Denny

  • They are the definition of a well-matched couple.

  • Superb movie....great scene! :)

  • great! they're pefect couple. She's so beutiful, i love her

  • Lovely dance,

  • she dances well...rise and fall, plie...

  • All I can say of this dance is that is so awesome, one of my fave in the series, their conversation is interesting, and you can see elizabeth anoyed at his pride and he just trying to be all proud but he can't lol

  • One of my favorite parts!

  • LOL! Mr. Collins face at 1:32 cracks me up for some reason!!!

  • @ILuvLotte4Eva Mr. Collins has a few moments like that =)

  • I know! He's such a sleaze bag!!!

  • M y favorite scene, both in the book and in the series and film.

    There´s so much tension between them, it happens everything and nothing at the same time.

  • Mr Darcy is so effing HOT when he's trying to be all distant and high and mighty from Lizzy when we all know he wants her :P

  • Adaptations of classic literature just don't get any better than this. It's perfect.

  • At 3:36 to 3:41 the tension and the chemistrly between them is so real you can see sparkles around !

  • I love this scene. There's a real mental tug of war going on between her and Darcy but Lizzy simply can't see the chemistry!

  • hahaha 0:11 - 0:13 LOOK AT JANE!

  • I know!!!! I was just about to comment on that

  • Correction, I missed a detail-

    1st couple, *cross set* cast off, back to back, face up, join hands- at same time:

    Probably some others too.

  • Lizzie & Darcy start as first couple at top of set.

    All right hand quite round

    All left hand quite round

    1st couple cross set full circle

    (2nd couple standing)

    1st couple, cast off, back to back, face up, join hands- at same time:

    2nd couple, face up, advance two, cast off, join hands with first couple, all advance one, retreat one.

    1st couple casts off to 2nd place, 2nd couple turns in, faces up, advances to first place.

    Quite simple, really :)

  • My friends kind of stare at me weirdly for saying this, but I finished reading Pride and Prejudice for my high school free reading project...and god, Darcy was just totally awesome. Note to self: Twilight's Edward and Jacob are nothing to the awesomeness of Darcy.

  • Hi Claire1909, did you think that Darcy was superb even in the book? His letter to Elizabeth was very well written but I would say Colin Firth makes the character really charismatic. I'm rereading the book now after several years. Perhaps Darcy in the book will be more impressing due to his role in Lydia's elopement.

  • I can't believe that you'd even compare that trashy Twilight to this masterpiece

  • @claire1909 Darcy is *the* arrogant, brooding, changed-by-a-woman hero. Sparkles and Furball don't even rate on my chart.

  • @claire1909 I agree totally about Jacob and Edward...--'

  • @claire1909 Bless you, you are so right! (And Colin Firth does an incredible job, wouldn't you agree?)

    P&P has stood the test of time for over 200 years; I doubt anyone will remember Edward and Jacob 200 years from now.

  • @raynasabine ... I agree with you whole-heartedly, Colin is a FABULOUS Darcy ... AND 'our lovely Colin' has got his Oscar for 'The King's Speech' and very well deserved to I might add, in my humble opinion... Colin Firth is GORGEOUS and his lovely wife Livvy is a VERY lucky lady indeed... *swoons* :0)x

  • @claire1909 I TOTALLY AGREE!! here in London all girls over 20 love him! totally, its like a huge fantasy indeed

  • @claire1909 the two shouldnt even be metiond in the same sentence!!!

  • @claire1909 Plus, Darcy is a real man. :D (As in, human XP.)

    A lot of guys actually like Austen men upon acquaintance because while they may not be rescuing ladies from oncoming missiles, they live in a world where they have to know just the right thing to say in a world surrounded by women- and deal with real life issues. They're real men, real role models, not vampires, werewolves, Superman, or Bruce Willis. XP

  • @claire1909

    Glad that you're interested in the classics! Nothing against Twilight and the like (tho I cannot bring myself to read the book, having seen the movie!), but classical literature are very interesting to read too.

  • @claire1909 Would you mind if I build an altar for you?

  • @SanghaBlack Only if you make one first for Jane Austen for making fictional characters I can't help but swoon for. Then yes.

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  • I went to a regency dance this weekend, and did several dances with figures like this (without the barbed conversation, happily). It is great fun- google country dance to find an event near you!

  • to rocketplumber

    wow that's so exciting! and you learned how to do this one?

  • No, this wasn't among the dances we did that evening, but it's pretty straightforward, certainly simpler than some dances. Let me see if I can write down the choreography, rank beginner that I am...

  • @rocketplumber

    Going to an English Country Dance tomorrow! It's the greatest!

  • What? Where? How can I find one?

  • i don't see how lizzie can resist the hottest of mr. darcy here! XD

  • the dance is perfect though for the conversation they're about to have. It's somewhat private and slower than the more animated one Lizzy danced with Mr Collins. Imagine Darcy and Lizzy dancing that one and trying to discuss Wickham at that!! lol I'm picturing a not so proud Darcy and a Lizzy running out of breath for a bit.

  • To the person who said that they're engaging in a verbal duel rather than dancing- I've always thought the same thing! Notice that this dance is perfect for this "duel" because it's not as cheerful and happy as some of the other ones- like the one with Mr. Collins was.  It's a much more serious dance, almost somber- a perfect background for their sparring with words.

    Capitol, capitol! LOL Love the annoying Sir Lucas

  • @billiepilgrimesq You are right that they're engaged in verbal sparring so says the "Making of P&P" book and it shows in the type of dance that they are performing. Imma geek, I know!

  • yay! Mr. Darcy and Lizzy! ^_^

  • What is the name of this kind of dance/dancing?

  • @x675

    It's called English country dance/dancing. You can find many examples of it here on YouTube if you use that search term.

  • MerC for the info.

  • did they not release this on the soundtrack? caus eif not thats why i wanted to buy it:(

  • I wish they'd released this on the soundtrack

  • Oh, that's so fascinating...!

    Seems our couple is engaged in a verbal dual rather than dancing....

    Capital, capital !!!

  • haha, I love Lizzy!

  • prejudice and pride

    hmm

    yeah i agree that isn't so faithful to the book

  • A classic scene. Nothing comes close to this adaptation of P&P.

  • @emwall315 Agreed!

  • This version is truer to the book. Love this part.

  • The dance Mr Darcy and Lizzy are dancing: Mr. Beveridge's Maggot ,John Playford 1695

  • look at jane in the background at the beginning!

  • I know - what is she doing?!

  • nodding her head xD

  • in slowmotion! i've always noted it!!

  • Does anybody know where I can buy this version of Mr. Beveridge's Magget online? I've been searching for it forever, but they're all the wrong versions. I need it for a Pride and Prejudice party I'm throwing tomorrow night.

  • hm. in my own personal opinion, i like the one with Keira Knightley. but i like this! =D

  • That isn't so faithful to the book unfortunately. In my opinion, the BBC version does it far more justice. but each to their own :)

  • we all have our opinions, and we can agree to disagree.

  • The Directors have to different point of views. I personally like the 1995 version because to me the 2005 looks kind of slopy, the Bennett's house is a total mess, all dirty and the ball room seems to crowded to me, it's is just my opinion.

  • we're all entitled to our opinions. if you like one and i like the other, that's perfectly fine. =D

  • i love this scene

    i always have a hard time finding this song.

  • the couple looks like my uncle and aunt....

  • I love this movie!!! it's so much better than the new one with Keira Knightly.

  • Mrs knightly is a pouting tit.

  • I MUST see this movie now. Absolutely GORGEOUS! And what a delicious dance! It would be great fun to learn.

  • I'm sure it's already been covered, but can anyone tell me what dance this is? I know it's an English country dance from the early 1800's, but which one?

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  • Mr. Beveridge's Maggot is the name of the dance...

  • Well, isn't that a positively charming name for a dance?

  • Well, way back in the 1760's (or 1660's, I forget) when this song was written, the word 'maggot' meant something to the effect of 'fancy' (As in, "I fancy that dress there yonder!" So, the title would make sense, after all, Mr. Beveridge likes it.

  • Well...if Mr. BEVERIDGE likes it, then GEEeeeez ..........I better get me one of them "maggots." =)

  • fuck u man ! look at u first in the mirror, man

  • I LOVE this scene!

    and Colin is absolutely charming in the white stockings! ))

  • Thanks for posting this! Did anyone else notice how Darcy rolls his eyes at 2:01 or so? When Lizzy tells him they are both "of an unsocial, taciturn disposition."

  • "May I ask to what these questions tend?"

    "Merely to the illustration of your character; I am trying to make it out."

    "And what is your success?"

    "I do not get on at all. I hear so many different accounts of you as to puzzle me exceedingly."

    Oh, that people would talk like that again! <3

  • I know, I wish so much I could live in that time!

  • same here, i love reading books that are set in the Victorian-era...it's so fascinating.

  • The time frame for this is actually PRE-Victorian.

  • to keirababe:

    actually, this was pre-victorian era. I think King James was ruling at this time. *Then* came Victoria.

  • @killedbyAP This is set in Georgian times I believe.

  • @raquelborn In the sub-period called the Regency.

  • Oh, I'm sorry I had not reacted to your earlier reaction! You're welcome of course :) It's a mistake a lot of people make!

  • "Elizabeth made no answer, and took her place in the set, amazed at the dignity to which she was arrived in being allowed to stand opposite to Mr. Darcy, and reading in her neighbours' looks their equal amazement in beholding it."

  • "It is YOUR turn now, to say something, Mr. Dahhhhh-ceee." =)

  • This is the best i watch this with my mom every night!

  • lol i watch it all the time 2! :)

  • i've watched it like 30 times and it's always great. i hated nightly playing lizzie

  • its always great! :) i agree

    but knightley wasnt as bad as

    some say she was. i didnt especially

    think it was good, just average, and thus,

    not good enough

  • @karamesineika

    A compatriot commenting at P&P music ! At last! I thought i was the only P&P fan in Greece!

  • @margo3883

    do you by any chance know, what music is this?i love it

  • @karamesineika

    Most certainly i do, for this music has haunted me for quite some time so i had to make a small research.. Well this was written by one Mr Playford in 1701. There was as a soundtruck in " Emma" the movie and also " Tudors" the series, Season 2, episodes 8 and 9!

  • @karamesineika The title is " Mr Beveridge's Maggot" which means actually " Mr Beveridge's favorite". Quite odd, right ?!

  • Gah! *puts on forever repeat* Thank god someone has the proper version up here.

    Much love.

  • just 5 minutes ago i was watching this exact scene on the DVD, but it has to go back to library today.

    you don't know how glad i am to see this posted up here.

    pride and prejudice is my favorite book ever.

  • The ultimate chick flick.  I love this move, love this scene. Ahhhhh..... Mr. Darcy.

    Thanks for sharing this.

    It's a welcome relief from all the negative politics going on in the world.

  • Love this movie, love this scene. The first shot where Darcy and Lizzy "go down the dance" in a line (0:45) always cracks me up because if you take a closer look at Darcy,(he's holding hands with Lizzy at his left and Maria at his right), he's practically dangling Maria's hand by one measley finger and he's got the full embrace, locked and loaded grasp of Lizzy's hand. Ohhhh Mr. Darcy, that is just so you!

  • that looks like what my bf would do! rofl! never noticed it thx for pointing it out!

  • My favorite scene from the movie, when they first grasp hands in the dance, it's like an electrical charge or something goes through them. She is indignant, he is really beginning to fall in love.... ah, then he wins her. The ultimate romance. Jane Austen, you are the master!

  • What a beautiful time!

    God Bless St. Jane Austin!

  • She's actually called Jane AustEn ;)

  • loesje91, Thanks for your spelling correction!

    I love your Profile Site! God Bless! :)

  • I absolutely love this scene and the music is fantstic! "then we may enjoy the advantage of saying as little as possible!"

  • "You talk by rule while you are dancing"

  • I see we have a woman here, who is very dissapointed with men and her love problems seem to overtake this beutiful dance scene and nice looking etiquette on which we post comments. comen83, take it easy - no one wants to take your privileges away from you. We are just admiring the scene and ways of behaviour, not politics or women situation.

  • Yeah, these were the days a woman behaved like a woman. For these days back would be marvellous.

  • I love this movie and miss these days and ways of behaviour. Everything is so informal today... I also like the scene in which Mr Darcy says "Every savage can dance". Very few people can dance today.

  • I really love this movie and all Jane Austen related stuff, but god am I happy I live today. Woman were nothing in that time. They only had to know their etiquette, their place and most of the time had to shut up. Yeah, what nice times that were. No, thank you very much. Jane Austen never married. Guess why.

  • Probably she wasn't pretty, and as a daughter of parish rector she didn't have enough money to tempt any gentleman. She was unmarried like many women today.

    Women weren't nothing, and many of them were very important like Queen Victoria whose husband was less important than her, or simply Lady Cathrene de Burgh ;-)

  • Oh please, how many women had that power actually?? Firstly, everything was about good mariage and that goal was mostly achieved with money not with good looks (hu? almost like today??). The woman merely had to manage the household, thinking was mostly not welcome. But the percentage of that well off woman was below maybe 20% percent. All the others were peasants and less fortunate. Except their working power (from 4.30 till sundown) they were thought of as unworthy. Learn your histroy please.

  • And regarding Queen Victoria: She came to power 20 years after Jane Austen died. And she only came in power because there was no male heir to the throne. Every other woman like baronesses or others of good birth mostly only gained power after the deaths of their spouses. Or have you heard anything of a MR. de Burgh. As good as it looks in the movies: Living in that time wasn't easy. Exspecially not for woman. And that's a fact.

  • And male peasants didn't work from 4:30 till sundown.

  • They surely did. But male peasants were savages who couldn't dance as Mr. Darcy would put it.

  • The so called peasants certainly could dance. They would not dance in the courtly style of the gentry. Theirs would be a much more vigorous and robust form. A concertina, a penny whistle and maybe a drum to get them going. On special days in the year the whole village would turn out for a shindig.

  • This type of dancing is so much more seductive than today's style. The restraint is what increases the tension. Love it.

  • I love the serpent music instrument. It's such a rare instrument and it sounds so nice. It fits this dance perfectly!

  • love this song, and i adore colin firth as mr. darcy, this is my absolute favorite P&P adaptation.

  • Shallow.

  • Love this film. Mr darcy is a legend. Also good to see humpty dumpty still getting work. You see him looming throughout but really see his pleasure at 04:15. Wonderful!

  • świetna muzyka

  • My favorite scene from my favorite film! So wonderfully choreographed - fascinating! Thank you for downloading it. I watch it over and over and love it more each time.

  • where do i find the whole movie???plz helppppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!

  • After recently watching my new P&P Special edition dvd, I had this song stuck in my head for 2 days...haha! it's a great scene. :)

  • My favorite scene in the whole series.

    It happens everythiong and nothing at the same time!

    Thanks for uploading this

  • hey, it's just like the cha cha slide!

    looks fun

  • Yes this version is closest to the book. I cant stop watchign this video. I would like to learn how to dance like this. I even like to watch the other players in the background. So much going on. :) This is so perfect! Thank you for sharing.

  • Everything charming and so elegant. I love this movie... best adaptation of P&P. You'd need the book still to fill in the little details that had to be left out to cut the length. But it's the closest to the book.

  • The only thing that bothers me about this scene is the squeaky floor :p

    No one tops Colin Firth as Darcy though. Matthew Macfadyen just looked chronically depressed in the 2005 version.

  • Haha!! That's hilarious!! I agree - Colin Firth is the only Mr. Darcy in my mind, but I hadn't really thought about WHY Matthew Macfadyen just didn't really fit the role in the least -(other than the fact that he's not Colin) ;) That's great. chronically depressed - I like that. :D

  • wow i wish that did that kind of thing here, hannamontanachloe. i love this graceful dance. they dressed so beautifully and were so polite! i wish life were like that today.

  • Английский танец в фильме только один и тот-же?

  • I LOVED this production and this scene! Thanks for posting it so I can see it again and again.

    Sigh, would that we were so elegant as these folk these days. But then, they didn't have the Internet and we do. I guess there are some compensations!