Green Grow the Rashes ~ RSCDS
Green Grow the Rashes ~ RSCDS is a Scottish Country Dance. It was published by Walsh in about 1740 in The Compleat Country Dancing-Master Book 1, 4th Ed., London. It was interpreted by RSCDS in 1938 and published in RSCDS Book 12. It is S8×32 3C/4C, a proper Triple Minor dance. St32.
The RSCDS attributes this dance to Johnson (who published it in ~1748), but Walsh published it first.
Hey on the Men's side Then foot it to Partners then to sides turn single after Each the the 1st Man turn 3d. Cu. half round and cast up into the 2d Place The Wo. do the same back again change sides and foot it cast up change sides and foot it cast off
The music consists of two 4 bar strains.
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.
An online description of the dance may be found here.
The dance contains the following figures: hand turn (allemande), set, circle, cast, hey, parallel hey (and probably others).
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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1938 by RSCDS. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2024 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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