Table of Contents

A

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Ambassador's Reel		Susi Mayr 2009		Triple Minor
Auld Lang Syne ~ RSCDS		Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1975		Triple Minor

B

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The Bath Waltz		Thomas Wilson 1816 Colin Hume 2023	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 312
Bridge of Nairn		Robert Bremner ~1765 RSCDS 1945		Triple Minor
Broun's Reel		William Boag ~1797 RSCDS 1924		Triple Minor
Brown's Reel		William Boag ~1797 RSCDS 1924		Triple Minor
Bulock's Hornpipe		John Young 1726 Colin Hume 2009	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

C

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Clutha ~ RSCDS		Kate Hughes ~1867 RSCDS 1983		Square

D

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Duke of Perth Duke of Perth ~ RSCDS William Boag ~1797 RSCDS 1924 Triple Minor Keep the Country, Bonny Lassie - Boag ~ Williams William Boag ~1797 George Williams 2024 Triple Minor
The Duran Ranger		Anonymous (date unknown) RSCDS 1945		Triple Minor

E

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The ESC Reel		Jenna Simpson 2020		Triple Minor

F

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Fiddle Faddle ~ RSCDS		Walsh 1735 RSCDS 1938		Triple Minor

K

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Keep the Country, Bonny Lassie - Boag		William Boag ~1797 RSCDS 1924		Triple Minor
Keep the Country, Bonny Lassie - Boag Keep the Country, Bonny Lassie - Boag ~ Williams William Boag ~1797 George Williams 2024 Triple Minor

L

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Miss Mary Douglas Miss Mary Douglas ~ RSCDS Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1935 Triple Minor
Light and Airy		William Campbell ~1804 RSCDS 1927		Triple Minor
Love's Triumph Love's Triumph ~ Higgs John Young 1710 Scott Higgs 2019 Colin Hume 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231 Love's Triumph ~ Hume John Young 1710 Colin Hume 2007 Colin Hume 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231 Love's Triumph ~ Triple John Young 1710 Colin Hume 2007 Colin Hume Triple Minor
The Lover's Luck The Lover's Luck ~ Cook Thomas Bray 1699 Tom Cook 1979 Playford Assembly Duple Minor The Lover's Luck ~ Pat Shaw Thomas Bray 1699 Pat Shaw 1960 Duple Minor

M

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
A Man's a Man for a' That ~ RSCDS		Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1981		Triple Minor
Miss Mary Douglas Miss Mary Douglas ~ RSCDS Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1935 Triple Minor
Mr. Wilson's Hornpipe Mr. Wilson's Hornpipe ~ RSCDS Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1951 Triple Minor
Mungo's Delight Mungo's Delight Ignatius Sancho 1779 George Williams 2023 Odd Sundays Garage Band Triple Minor Mungo's Delight ~ Duple Ignatius Sancho 1779 George Williams 2023 Odd Sundays Garage Band Duple Minor

N

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Not I		Johnson ~1754 RSCDS 1977		Triple Minor

O

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Off She Goes ~ Williams		Thomas Wilson 1816 George Williams 2022	Colin Hume	Triple Minor
On the Oregon Trail		Deanna St. Amand 1995		Triple Minor

P

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Pease Strae		William Boag ~1797 RSCDS 1924		Triple Minor
Pease Straw		William Boag ~1797 RSCDS 1924		Triple Minor
Prince Frederick's Hornpipe		Johnson 1736 Bernard Bentley 1980		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
The Prussian Waltz		Thomas Wilson 1816 Colin Hume 2023	Colin Hume	3 Couple Longways permutation: 312

R

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Rakish Highlandman ~ RSCDS		Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1957		Triple Minor
Ravenscroft's Hornpipe		John Young 1726 Bernard Bentley 1980		3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Redwood Arbor		Bob McMurtry 2005		Triple Minor
Rob Roy MacGregor ~ Williams		G.M.S. Chivers 1821 George Williams 2024		Triple Minor
The Russian Dance		David Wall 1775 Pat Shaw 1959		Triple Minor

S

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Starry Night		Bob Harmon 2008		Triple Minor

T

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Trip To Gretna Green		Anonymous (date unknown) Betty Lee Barnes		Triple Minor

V

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Vaughan's Ramble ~ Sheffield		Nathaniel Kynaston 1711 Ken Sheffield 1995		3 Couple Longways permutation: 312

W

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
The White Heather Jig		James B. Cosh 1964		4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341

Y

Dance Title	Type	Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter	Music Performers	Formation
Young Roger - Playford		John Young 1710 George Williams 2023		Triple Minor

Number of dances	Number of versions	Number with music
32	36	8

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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Turn Corner, Partner, Corner, Partner

Also known as: Swing Corners.

An online definition may be found here.

Bars: 8.

Turn 1st corner right, turn partner left (once and a half times in Scottish), turn 2nd corner right, cross with partner by left.

History

Early examples of this figure are not very explicit, and it is not always clear which hand you use to turn whom, thus in modern dancing styles we have two different versions of what is basically the same figure.

In US Contra Dancing you turn your partner right, your 1st corner left, your partner right again, and your second corner left. The first description I can find that explicitly says to do this is in Thomas Wilson's An Analysis of Country Dancing from 1808.

Most other styles have settled on: turn your first corner right, partner left, 2nd corner right, partner left.

In Iantha the Lovely, Walsh, 1718 said: the 1st Man turn the 3d Wo. and the 1s Wo. the 2d. Man, then he turns his own Partner; then 1st Man turn the 2d. Wo. and the 1st. Wo. the 3d Man, and turn his own Partner again. We know whom to turn, and the order, but not whether to use right or left (or both) hands.

In Bullock's Hornpipe, John Young, 1726, says: And then cross over quite round all the 4 corners. which is even less specific.

Walsh, in 1731 does a little better in the dance Prince William saying: The 1st Man turns the 3d Wo. with his Right Hand, his Partner does the same with the 2d Man at the same Time and then turn your Partners Do the same at the other Corner.

Nathanial Dukes, 1752, in his A Consise & Easy Method of Learning the Figuring Part of Country Dances also defines it as right hands to corner, left to partner, right to corner, and left to partner.

Usually 8 bars are allocated for this figure, but occasionally 16.

Porter, Heffer, & Heffer suggest using a two hand turn (instead of right or left) for a 16 bar version in Fandango when Thompson said: turn corners & turn your Part: the same at the other corners.

See Also

• Contra Corners

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