Glasgow Highlanders (was Set dances) (was variant spellings ofPoussette)

jo.pickering

Message 61470 · 1 Aug 2011 00:33:39 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

On the other hand are there any dances that weren't composed? Somebody must have composed the dances in Walsh and Wilson. I think we know that Nathaniel Gow composed Petronella in about 1815. The fact is that SCD isn't in fact the 'traditional' dancing of country people in Scotland. It was invented in the late eighteenth century by doing ECD to Scottish music and addidng in some steps and figures from the foursome reel (and later from the quadrilles).

Jo
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I was beginning to get a huge feeling of deja vu about GH, and sure enough we've been there and done that.  10 years ago Rosemary quoted the person who first published the dance (Walter Gillies, as Mikel says) in Message 28664 (6 Dec 2001).  Gillies attributes the dance to a company of Highland soldiers. 

While we probably won't ever know their names, this is close enough for me that 'traditional' doesn't cut it -- even though the dance predates the SCDS and is more than 100 years old (131, to be exact).  It's still a composed dance.

Mike Briggs

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walter f gillies

http://my.strathspey.org/dd/dance/2498/

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Dear Mike,

"The Glasgow Highlanders" is 'traditional' in the sense that it was devised
before the creation of the Society, is 100+ years old and, as far as I am
aware, the deviser's name is unknown.

Regards,

 
Iain Boyd

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GH "traditional"?  Surely not.  I thought it was pretty well documented as a
late 19C dance devised for the ballroom.  Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Mike Briggs

 1519 Storytown Road

Oregon WI  53575-2521  USA
+1 608 835 0914 (o)
+1 608 770 2304 (m)
+1 608 237 2379 (f)