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Book 34. Music and steps for: C'est l'amour or The Flirt; Royal Albert Country Dance; Glasgow Lasses (strathspey); Neil Gow's Farewell to Whiskey; Over the Water to Charlie (new vers.); New Scotia Quadrille; Couteraller's Rant; Open the Door to Three. ... Read more

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Includes piano music and dance description with diagrams for the following 10 dances: Land o' Cakes, Lord Kilmory's Delight, Well Done Jack, Fair Donald, The Sutherland Reel, The Charmer, The Crossing, Braw Sir John, The Happy Meeting, and Ross Meor. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Square dance is a folk dance with four couples (eight dancers) arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, beginning with Couple 1 facing away from the music and going counter-clockwise until getting to Couple 4. Couples 1 and 3 are known as the head couples, while Couples 2 and 4 are the side couples. Each dance begins and ends each sequence with "sets-in-order" in the square formation. The dance was first described in 17th century England but was also quite common in France and throughout Europe and bears a marked similarity to Scottish Country Dancing. ... Read more

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Chapters: Classical Music in Scotland, Scottish Country Dance, Reel, Jig, Céilidh, Margaret Henderson, Scottish Fiddling, Hornpipe, Cape Breton Fiddling, James Scott Skinner, List of Scottish Country Dances, Ghillies, Strathspey, Mairi's Wedding, Seann Triubhas, Strip the Willow, Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Roger de Coverley, Four Scottish Dances, Gay Gordons, Dashing White Sergeant, Reel of the 51st Highlanders, Alba String Quartet, Hamilton House, Lombard Rhythm, Duke of Perth, Clutha. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 101. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A Scottish country dance (SCD) or "reel" is a form of social dance involving groups of mixed couples of dancers tracing progressive patterns according to a predetermined choreography. Country dancing is often considered a type of folk dancing although this is not strictly true because it also has its roots in the courtly dances of the Renaissance. When it first became popular around the 18th century, it filled the niche that is occupied today by ballroom dances such as the waltz or tango, as a fairly refined form of entertainment. Related dance forms include English country dancing and contra dancing. The connection to styles like ceilidh dancing, "Old Time" dancing, Irish set dancing, or square dance is more tenuous. Also, Scottish country dancing should not be confused with Scottish highland dance, which (today) is closer to a sport rather than a social pastime, mainly being danced in competition and displays. There is a certain amount of cross-over in that there are Scottish country dances that include highland elements as well as highland-style performance dances which use formations otherwise seen in country dances, but other than that the styles do not really have a lot in common today. Scottish country dances are...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=63683 ... Read more

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Includes music and steps for the following: A Trip O'er the Tweed (Jig).- Pretty Polly (Strathspey).- Bonnie Lass (reel).- The Star (Strathspey for 3 couples).- Mairi's Fancy (Strathspey).- Mrs. Hill's Delight (Reel).- The Cumbrae Reel (reel).- Euan's Jig (Jig).- Miss Shaftesbury's Fancy (Strathspey).- Two to One (Jig).- Not I (Reel). ... Read more