Among the Pines

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The American Husband		Pat Shaw 1977	Colin Hume	Triple Minor
Buzzards Bay		Pat Shaw ~1977		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Her Man		Pat Shaw 1977	Colin Hume	Triple Minor

Bob Lilley's Nightmarish (and Other) Dances

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Melanie's Maggot		Bob Lilley 2007		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Caledonian Country Dances: with a through bass for y hopsicord, book 2

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Top & Bottom ~ Beer		Johnson ~1733 Jenny Beer 2000	Colin Hume	Duple Minor

Celebrating 50 Years (RSCDS Los Angeles)

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
In Mr. McGregor's Garden		Audrey Ramsay Prest 2016		Triple Minor
The Intruders		Jeff Altman 2015		Triple Minor

Colin Hume's Website

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Kevin's Celebration Waltz		Colin Hume 2018	Colin Hume	5 Couple Longways permutation: 25413
Golden Dolphins		Sue Carter 2005	Colin Hume	5 Couple Longways permutation: 24153

Deeside Book 1

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Ferla Mor		John Drewry 1981		Triple Minor

The Dolphin Book

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Orca ~ SCD		Barry Skelton 1994		Triple Minor

The Donside Book

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Dancing Master		John Drewry 1989		J4×96 Square

Impropriety Vol. 2

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Orcas Rising		Chris Sackett/Brooke Friendly 2006		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2413

Impropriety Vol. 3

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Rock the Boat		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2009		Triple Minor
Sally by the Pond		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2008		Duple Minor

Impropriety Vol. 4

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Reflections		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2009		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Travelers		Chris Sackett/Brooke Friendly 2011		Duple Minor

Impropriety Vol. 6

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Cacao		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2017		Triple Minor
Play On		Chris Sackett/Brooke Friendly 2018		Duple Minor
Pour Me Another		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2017		Duple Minor

Revelations

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Mulberry Lane		Jenna Simpson 2020		Duple Minor

RSCDS Book 46

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Scott Meikle		Alice McLean ~2004		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341

RSCDS Book 52

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Aviator		Carola Fischer 2011		Triple Minor

RSCDS Book 53

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Chased Lovers		Tim Wilson 2015		Triple Minor

RSCDS Book 54

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Thank You Patricia		Deb Lees ~2025		Triple Minor

Scottish Country Dancer (RSCDS Magazine)

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Eileen Watt's Reel		John Wilkinson 2005		3 Couple Longways permutation: 312

Under the Influence

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Gambols		Jenna Simpson 2014	Colin Hume	4 Couple Longways permutation: 3142

A Finite Set of Calculated Figures

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
A Quick Romp in the Hey		Gary Roodman 2003	Cilantrio (Karen Axelrod, Peter Barnes, and Mary Lea)	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

Number of dances	Number of versions	Number with music
27	27	6

Warning: The figures for each dance is generated programmatically by regular expression matching and may be in error. Also, for old dances, they reflect the figures used by the interpreter which may not match those of the deviser.

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Tandem Reel

Also known as: Shadow Hey, Shetland Hey.

An online definition may be found here.

Bars: 8.

The Fletts give several different versions of Shetland Reels, I'm only showing one. In all the 3 couple reels, each couple acts as a unit with the woman leading her partner. They follow the normal figure eight pattern of three person reels, except that each unit in the dance is a woman followed by her man.

History

The Fletts, in their Traditional Dancing in Scotland, 1964, say that this Shetland Reel seems to have been current as far back as living memory extends in the Sandwick and Cunningsburgh districts, which would be about the 1880s?.

Pat Shaw devised a few dances containing Shetland Reels in 1977 (see The American Husband).

John Drewry is the first I know of who only had one couple in tandem during the reels, see his dance Ferla Mor, 1981

See Also

• Reel
• Reel of Three
• Dolphin Reel

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