June 21, 2006, 11:46 a.m. (Message 45601)
Richard wrote: double triangles - (Spain) triangles (only logical since double means x2, so there should be at least 4) but I think the Scottish term is correct: dancing lady forms one triangle whilst her partner forms another, then they move around back to back and form another triangle each: 4 in total. Helen being pernickety in Dublin --------------------------------- Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail . "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal
June 21, 2006, 1:56 p.m. (Message 45602, in reply to message 45601)
Not quite so, since there are no triangles in the first place, since the corners to not touch hands with each other I would go for "double angles" two for the man, and two for the woman. Aside, the figure is an error in the first place. It was so defined by the RSCDS in a revival of a dance taken from notes. Unfortunately, no one either had access to, or had checked Wilson´s description of the figure, which simply describes the track of a single couple, from starting place moving anticlockwise around the outside of the two corners, forming for both the pattern of the star of David on the floor.
June 21, 2006, 8:06 p.m. (Message 45620, in reply to message 45602)
Could you describe "actual" double (tri)angles for those of me who wants a little more info than the general sketch you gave? Thanks. James Preston, England
June 21, 2006, 8:48 p.m. (Message 45621, in reply to message 45620)
James Tween wrote: > Could you describe "actual" double (tri)angles for those of me who wants a > little more info than the general sketch you gave? The Wilson document in question is available from the Strathspey Server (in PDF, thanks to the US Library of Congress), at http://www.strathspey.org/history/wilson-system.pdf The description of »the double triangle« is on page 155 of the PDF. For those of you who are understandably loth to download a 9-MB PDF file, I have put up the relevant bit at http://www.strathspey.org/history/wilson-doubletri.png It is a picture with explanations that do not make a lot of sense without the picture. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau, Frankfurt, Germany ..................... xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. -- Pierre-Augustin De Beaumarchais
June 21, 2006, 9:05 p.m. (Message 45622, in reply to message 45620)
James asked: > Could you describe "actual" double (tri)angles for those of me who wants a > little more info than the general sketch you gave? If you look at the diagram in the history section of the Strathspey website (from Wilson's Complete System of English Country Dancing, also on the Strathspey site) you can see that today we would describe it as: The dancing couple, from second place on their own side, dance round their first corners R Sh, then round their second corners L Sh and return to second place own side. Malcolm L Brown York (UK)
June 21, 2006, 10:32 p.m. (Message 45624, in reply to message 45601)
Interesting pattern, does not fit the one in my memory, will check when I get the house organized enough to be able to find it. (Prognosis is that the house will be complete, well sort of, in two weeks, or Christmas. Officially the pool is almost tiled, some doors need glazing, the panels in the drawing room need replacing and the electricity reconnected in that room, 3 more doors hung, some painting and my escutcheon with house number inset in the keystone above the front door.)