Table of Contents

• Facing Couples
  • Facing Couples proper
• Duple Minor
  • Duple Minor proper
  • Duple Minor improper
  • Becket CCW
• Triple Minor
  • Triple Minor proper
• Quadruple Minor
  • Four Face Four
• Longways
  • 3 Couple Longways proper
  • 3 Couple Longways with the 1s, 3s improper
• Circle
  • Square / 4 Couple Circle
  • Circle as many as will
• Sicilian Circles

Facing Couples

Facing Couples proper

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Cast Away Waltz		Alan Winston 2002	Colin Hume	Facing Couples

Duple Minor

Duple Minor proper

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Along the Dee		Jenna Simpson 2020		Duple Minor
The House on Wake Street		Jenny Beer 2017		Duple Minor
Irish Lamentation ~ Cook		Johnson ~1740 Tom Cook 1979 Playford Assembly	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
The Northdown Waltz		Goulding 1820 A. Simons 1971 Playford Ball	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor
Prince William of Glo's'ter's Waltz		Preston 1801 Pat Woods 1958 Playford Ball	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor
Staffordshire Hornpipe		Pat Shaw 1958		Duple Minor
Storrow House		Ed Wilfert ~1993		Duple Minor
Sunday at Morningside		Robert E Jamison 2008	Reelplay	Duple Minor

Duple Minor improper

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Birthday Waltz		Colin Hume 1996	Colin Hume	Duple Minor
Circassian Circle ~ Wilson		G.M.S. Chivers 1822 Wilson 1852		Duple Minor
Cornish Waltz		J. Francis Carter ~1993		Duple Minor
The Guaracha		H. D. Wilcock ~1868 George Williams 2022		Duple Minor
Laura's Waltz		David Macemon & Cynthia Stenger ~2003	Bare Necessities	Duple Minor
The Log Cabin		Robin Rodgers-Brown 1988		Duple Minor
Mary Ann's Waltz		Gary Roodman 1992		Duple Minor
Spanish Country Dance ~ Lowe		Joseph Lowe ~1850 George Williams 2024		Duple Minor
Sylvia's Waltz		T. Auxier ~1993		Duple Minor

Duple Minor improper double progression

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Sweet and Cheerful		Philippe Callens 2001		Duple Minor

Becket CCW

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Woodlands Waltz		Gary Roodman 1999		Becket CCW

Triple Minor

Triple Minor proper

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Come Let's Be Merry		John Young 1726 Tom Cook 1975 Playford Assembly	Bare Necessities	Triple Minor permutation: 312
The Rose in June		Charles and Samuel Thompson 1802 Colin Hume 2019	Colin Hume	Triple Minor permutation: 312

Quadruple Minor

Four Face Four

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
La Tempete ~ Skinner		James Scott Skinner ~1880 George Williams 2024		Four Face Four

Longways

3 Couple Longways proper

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
30 Years Waltz		Fried de Metz Herman 2004		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Cat in the Window		Fried de Metz Herman 1994		3 Couple Longways
Cynthia's Waltz		David Macemon ~1993		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Laurelhurst		Fried de Metz Herman 1996		3 Couple Longways permutation: 312
Ode to the Pianist		Fried de Metz Herman 1999		3 Couple Longways

3 Couple Longways with the 1s, 3s improper

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Roses among the Thorns		Fried de Metz Herman 1994		3 Couple Longways

Circle

Square / 4 Couple Circle

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Heidenröslein		Pat Shaw 1967		Square
Maggie's Waltz Square		Colin Hume 2002	Frank Hoppe, Robert Winokur, and Susan McNeil	Square
La Ronde de l'Amour		Pat Shaw 1956		Square

Circle as many as will

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Blackberry Sorbet		Brooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2015		Circle as many as will
Dear Papa and Dear Mama #2		Pat Shaw 1974	Bare Necessities	Circle as many as will
Hero and Beatrice		Wil van den Berg ~1993		Circle as many as will
Sarah's Waltz Mixer		Gary Roodman 1987		Circle as many as will
The Two Cousins		Wil van den Berg ~1993		Circle as many as will
The Wood Duck		Fried de Metz Herman 1978		Circle as many as will

Circle as many as will double progression

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Farewell Marian		Gwyn Williams 1967	Bare Necessities	Circle as many as will
Sunwize		Kalia Kliban 2011		Circle as many as will

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.

Waltz

Bars: 8,16.

The Regency Dance Site has a good paper on the history of the waltz in England and how it interacted with Country Dance.

Starting in the 1790 you started seeing dances set to waltz music (and which contained "waltz" in their names, like The New German Waltz published by Longman & Broderip in 1796). But people did not waltz in these dances.

According to the Regency Dance's paper, the first country dance to describe a ballroom position hold and waltzing within the dance was William Campbell's The Russian Ambassador Waltz from ~1807.

Elias Howe published 12 country dances which contain waltzing as one of their figures in The American Dancing Master, 1862.

See Also

• Swing

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