Kiss Me Quick, My Mither's Coming
Bonny Jocky ~ RSCDS
Kiss Me Quick, My Mither's Coming or Bonny Jocky ~ RSCDS is a Scottish Country Dance. It was published by Walsh in 1740 in The Compleat Country Dancing-Master Book 2, 3rd Ed., London. It was interpreted by RSCDS in 1938 and published in RSCDS Book 12. It is R8×32 3C/4C, a proper Triple Minor dance. R32.
RSCDS Book 12 attributes this to Johnson's Caledonian Country Dances of 1748 but it appears earlier.
Walsh published Kiss Quick Mother's A'Comeing (sic) in his The Compleat Country Dancing-Master Book 2, 3rd Ed. ~1740 Given that this is the third edition, the dance may well have appeared earlier but I don't have access to the earlier editions.
Johnson republished it a few years later in his Caledonian Country Dances of ~1748.
In 1735 Walsh a different figure named Kiss me fast my Mother's coming. The Merry Medley, 1749 published yet another figure named Kiss me quick my Mother's coming.
Anyway in 1740 Walsh writes:
Each strain twice
First Man kiss quick the 2d Wo. and cast off and go the whole figure round the 3d Cu. and stand in 2d Cu. place And the 1st Wo. do the same 1st man heys with 3d Cu. at the Bottom and the 1st Wo. heys at top with 2d Cu. at the same time Then 1st Cu. cast up to top and go the whole Figure and cast off into the 2d Cu. place
Music consists of two 8 bar strains both repeated.
Note the kiss has been replaced by a bow
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: set, cast, figure eight, double figure eight, hey (and probably others).
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