My Mother's Coming In
My Mother's Coming In is a Scottish Country Dance. It was devised by Thomas Wilson in about 1814 and published in No. 26 of Button & Whitaker's Selection of Dances, Reels and Waltzes, London. It was interpreted by RSCDS in 1949 and published in RSCDS Book 15. It is R8×32 3C/4C, a proper Triple Minor dance. R32.
According to the Regency Dance site, Button & Whitaker published a dance with this name in their 28th selection, and their page on Thomas Wilson indicates that he was the deviser of the Country Dances in that selection. Sadly I do not have access to the figures of these dances.
Wilson defined all his figures in his book The Analysis of Country Dancing. Double triangles appear in the 3rd edition of that work. Wilson's double triangles are completely different from those of the RSCDS. Wilson probably invented the figure and used the term to mean: the middle couple loop first corner right shoulder pass outside partner's place, then loop 2nd corner right shoulder and return to place.
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, cast, figure eight, hey, parallel hey, double triangle (and probably others).
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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1949 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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