Cadgers in the Canongate ~ Williams
Cadgers in the Conongate ~ Williams
Cadgers in the Canongate ~ Williams or Cadgers in the Conongate ~ Williams is an English Country Dance. It was published by Walsh in 1760 in Country Dances Selected, Part 1, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2022. It is a proper Triple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 64 bars.
Walsh writes:
First Cu. hey contrary sides then on your own sides the 1st Cu. foot it to the 2d Wo. and turn her the same to the 2d Man the 1st and 2d Cu. foot it and Right hands across Foot it and Left hands across back again cross over one Cu. and turn Right and Left at top
The music is in cut time with two 4 bar strains and a 2 bar strain. But the firgures seem to be in standard 8 bar chunks. Ignoring the music, the figures seem fairly standard.
>Walsh spells "Canongate" as "Conongate".
Cannongate is a major street in historic Edinburgh (gate=street), and a "cadger" is a carter who brings produce to market.
The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. 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 dances of George Williams (including interpretations like this one) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.
| A1 | 1-8 | 1s cross between 2s into mirror heys on the opposite side |
| A2 | 1-8 | 1s cross again into mirror heys on their own sides |
| B1 | 1-2 | 1s set to partner |
| 3-4 | 1s set to W2 | |
| 5-8 | 1s+W2 circle three | |
| B2 | 1-2 | 1s set to partner |
| 3-4 | 1s set to M2 | |
| 5-8 | 1s+M2 circle three | |
| A3 | 1-4 | 1s+2s set to partner, set to center |
| 5-8 | 1s+2s right hands across | |
| A4 | 1-4 | 1s+2s set to partner, set to center |
| 5-8 | 1s+2s left hands across | |
| B3 | 1-4 | 1s cross, go below, as 2s lead up |
| 5-8 | 1s two hand turn once and a half to proper | |
| B4 | 1-8 | 1s+2s face partner four changes of rights and lefts |
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