What a Beau My Granny Was ~ RSCDS

What a Beau Your Granny Was What a Beau My Granny Was ~ RSCDS

What a Beau My Granny Was ~ RSCDS is a Scottish Country Dance. It was published by Longman & Broderip in 1790 in Longman and Broderip's Selection of...Country Dances, Reels &c., London. It was interpreted by RSCDS in 1947 and published in RSCDS Book 14. It is R8×32 3C/4C, a proper Triple Minor dance. R32.

RSCDS Book 14 attributes this to Preston, ~1800, but Longman & Broderip published it in 1790.

Longman & Broderip named the dance What a Beau Your Granny Was. As did Bland & Weber in 1797, Preston in 1798 and Dale in 1800.

I can't find Longman & Broderip, but in ~1800, in Dale's Selection of the Most Favorite Country Dances and Reels (dance 17), Joseph Dale writes:

The three Ladies lead round the three Gent: at the same time the three Gent: set and hands three round.
The three Gentlemen lead round the three Ladies, at the same time the Ladies set and hands three round.
The first Cu: Poussette with the second Cu: into 2d. Cus. place and turn there Partrs. half round with both hands.
Right and Left at top.

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, circle, rights and lefts (and probably others).

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