Table of Contents
- Duple Minor
- Triple Minor
- Longways
- Circle
Duple Minor
Duple Minor proper
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Mungo's Delight ~ Duple | | Ignatius Sancho 1779 George Williams 2023 | Odd Sundays Garage Band | Duple Minor |
Triple Minor
Triple Minor proper
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The ESC Reel | | Jenna Simpson 2020 | | Triple Minor |
| Fiddle Faddle ~ RSCDS | | Walsh 1735 RSCDS 1938 | | Triple Minor |
| Keep the Country, Bonny Lassie - Boag | | William Boag ~1797 RSCDS 1924 | | Triple Minor |
| Keep the Country, Bonny Lassie - Boag ~ Williams | | William Boag ~1797 George Williams 2024 | | Triple Minor |
| Miss Mary Douglas ~ RSCDS | | Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1935 | | Triple Minor |
| Light and Airy | | William Campbell ~1804 RSCDS 1927 | | Triple Minor |
| Love's Triumph ~ Triple | | John Young 1710 Colin Hume 2007 | Colin Hume | Triple Minor |
| A Man's a Man for a' That ~ RSCDS | | Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1981 | | Triple Minor |
| Miss Mary Douglas ~ RSCDS | | Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1935 | | Triple Minor |
| Mr. Wilson's Hornpipe ~ RSCDS | | Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1951 | | Triple Minor |
| Mungo's Delight | | Ignatius Sancho 1779 George Williams 2023 | Odd Sundays Garage Band | Triple Minor |
| Not I | | Johnson ~1754 RSCDS 1977 | | Triple Minor |
| Off She Goes ~ Williams | | Thomas Wilson 1816 George Williams 2022 | Colin Hume | Triple Minor |
| On the Oregon Trail | | Deanna St. Amand 1995 | | Triple Minor |
| Pease Strae | | William Boag ~1797 RSCDS 1924 | | Triple Minor |
| Pease Straw | | William Boag ~1797 RSCDS 1924 | | Triple Minor |
| Rakish Highlandman ~ RSCDS | | Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS 1957 | | Triple Minor |
| 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 |
| Starry Night | | Bob Harmon 2008 | | Triple Minor |
| Trip To Gretna Green | | Anonymous (date unknown) Betty Lee Barnes | | Triple Minor |
| Young Roger - Playford | | John Young 1710 George Williams 2023 | | Triple Minor |
Longways
3 Couple Longways proper
| 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 |
| Bulock's Hornpipe | | John Young 1726 Colin Hume 2009 | Colin Hume | 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ravenscroft's Hornpipe | | John Young 1726 Bernard Bentley 1980 | | 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231 |
| Vaughan's Ramble ~ Sheffield | | Nathaniel Kynaston 1711 Ken Sheffield 1995 | | 3 Couple Longways permutation: 312 |
4 Couple Longways proper
| 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 |
Circle
Square / 4 Couple Circle
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clutha ~ RSCDS | | Kate Hughes ~1867 RSCDS 1983 | | Square |
| Number of dances | Number of versions | Number with music |
|---|---|---|
| 36 | 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.
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
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