Dances in A Companion to the Ball Room (Thomas Wilson, 1816, London)
An online copy of the original may be found here.
Table of Contents
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| Auld Lang Syne |
| 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 |
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| Ca' the Ewes |
| Ca' the Ewes tae the Knowes | | Thomas Wilson 1816
RSCDS 1951 |  | Duple Minor |
| The Caledonian Rant |
| Captain Macintosh |
| Captain MacIntosh - Shaw |
| Captain Mackintosh |
| The Carl cam' ower the Croft |
| The Carle came o're the Craft ~ Williams | | Thomas Wilson 1816
George Williams 2024 | | Triple Minor |
| Crief Fair |
| Cromartie's Rant |
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| Donald Bane |
| Donaldbane |
| Dumbarton Drums |
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| The Isle of Skye |
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| Jenny's Bawbee |
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| Lady Baird's Reel |
| Lady Harriet Hope's Reel |
| Lady Mary Douglas |
| Lord Hume's Reel |
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| Maggie Lauder |
| A Man's a Man for a' That |
| Miss Mary Douglas |
| Morpeth Rant |
| Mr. Wilson's Hornpipe |
| My Only Jo and Dearie, O |
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| None So Pretty - Wilson |
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| Off She Goes |
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| Peggy's Love |
| The Prussian Waltz | | Thomas Wilson 1816
Colin Hume 2023 | Colin Hume | 3 Couple Longways permutation: 312 |
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| Rakish Highlandman |
| Ruffian's Rant |
| Rural Felicity - Wilson | | Thomas Wilson 1816
Ken Sheffield 1982 | | 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231 |
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| Seann Triubhas Willichan |
| Sicilian Dance | | Thomas Wilson 1816
Ken Sheffield 1982 | | Duple Minor |
| The Sutherland Reel |
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| There's Nae Luck Aboot the Hoose |
| Todlen Hame |
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter | Music
Performers | Formation |
|---|
| Woo'd & Married & A' |
Number
of dances | Number
of versions | Number
with music |
|---|
| 39 | 68 | 4 |
This list contains all dances in the book which I have animated for a complete list of dances in the book see here.
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