{"id":183,"date":"2015-11-19T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/?p=183"},"modified":"2015-11-19T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T00:08:00","slug":"dances-for-november-23-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawadancescottish.org\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Dances for November 23, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Best Set in the Hall<\/b>
RSCDS Book 46
32-bar jig for three couples in a four-couple longwise set<\/p>\n

1\u20138        1st couple set and 1st woman, followed by her partner, casts off two places, crosses over below 3rd couple, casts up and dances in to face first corner. 1st man dances up the middle of the set to face his first corner. 2nd couple step up on bars 7-8.<\/p>\n

9\u201312    1st couple and first corners set and, 1st couple, pulling back by the right, dance around each other and out to finish in partner\u2019s first corner position. At the same time, first corners dance in towards each other and, pulling back by the right, finish back to back in the middle facing own places.<\/p>\n

13\u201316    1st couple and first corners set and first corners, pulling back by the right, dance around each other and out to finish in opposite corner\u2019s position. At the same time, 1st couple dance towards each other and, pulling back by the right, finish back to back in the middle facing second corners.<\/p>\n

17\u201324    1st couple repeat bars 9-16 with second corners and pass each other by the right to finish in second place on opposite sides. 3rd, 1st and 2nd couples face clockwise.<\/p>\n

25\u201328    3rd, 1st and 2nd couples dance clockwise halfway round the set.<\/p>\n

29\u201332    2nd, 1st and 3rd couples, giving right hands, turn once round.<\/p>\n

Repeat, having passed a couple.<\/p>\n

Devised by Helen Greenwood, Auckland, New Zealand.
Note: the movement in bars 9-24 was devised by the late Alec Hay.
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Notes Compiled by teachers, Summer School , St Andrews 2010
15-16    1st couple turn on the spot.
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TACNotes:1-8    1st woman dances straight in on bar 8 to face 1st corner.<\/p>\n

The Moudiewort<\/b>
RSCDS Book 11 \u2013 No. 7
32-bar jig for three couples in a four-couple longwise set<\/p>\n

1\u20134        1st man and 2nd woman set advancing and, giving right hands, turn once round.<\/p>\n

5\u20138        1st woman and 2nd man repeat bars 1-4.<\/p>\n

9\u201316        1st couple lead down the middle and up and cast off one place. 2nd couple step up on bars 15-16.<\/p>\n

17\u201320    1st couple dance down between 3rd couple, cast up one place and cross over to face first corners.<\/p>\n

21\u201324    1st couple set to first corners and then to second corners.<\/p>\n

25\u201330    2nd, 1st and 3rd couples dance reels of three on the sides. 1st couple pass second corners by the right to begin.<\/p>\n

31\u201332    1st couple, giving right hands, cross over to second place on own sides.<\/p>\n

Repeat, having passed a couple.<\/p>\n

Bowman MS, c. 1755-1760.
Original tune:  The Moudiewort  (Oswald\u2019s Caledonian Pocket Companion, 1752). Burns wrote the song  An\u2019o for ane an\u2019 twenty  to a version of this tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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