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Rebecca Sager

Rebecca Sager

3 X quicktime dances and music

Feb. 12, 2005, 7:42 p.m. (Message 40624, in reply to message 40613)

Lydia Hedge kindly sent me the original directions for Micmac Rotary -
the interchange figure which we (some of us, including Lydia)are
familiar with is not in The Brodie Book. The published version IS for
4 couples and 3x32 music would work. The version I assumed was
original (which is actually 2x96)is either one of Mr Drewry's second
thoughts or a local variant? How is the dance done in other parts of
the world?

Becky

Becky Sager
Marietta GA USA

-- "Becky Sager" <xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx> wrote:

Some at least of George's list are 96-bar dances, I'm familiar with
Chrysanthemum (4 couples, square set) and Micmac Rotary (8 couples
-though, Alan, Dance Data says 4 - in 2 square sets) so are outside
the current discussion. Shouldn't Micmac Rotary be 2x48?

Becky

Becky Sager
Marietta GA USA

-- "George Meikle" <xxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
Jim Healy wrote.......
> The diagram in the Leaflet book is, regrettably, incorrect in showing 
a four couple set and this has obviously fooled DanceData......

I am glad to say that my Sutton Coldfield Index shows it correctly as 3x48R.

As a matter of interest I have raked through all the dance programmes that I
and the Lothian Scottish Dance Band have played for to get the following
list of all the 3x Reels and Jigs we have been asked to play over a period
of about thirty years that I have on file.

Dance Title                  Bars  Played
AUCKLAND AIRS                3 32R   1
BONNY DUNOON                 3 32J   1
BREAKDOWN, The               3 32R   2
CHIPPY's RANT                3 32J   1
CHRYSANTHEMUM                3 32R   3
DANCING MASTER, The          3 32J   133
EILEAN DONAN CASTLE          3 48J   2
GEORGE SQUARE OF EDINBURGH   3 32R   1
HEY JOHNNIE COPE             3 32R   1
JOE FOSTER'S JIG             3 32J   3
MACPHERSON'S JIG             3 32J   22
MICMAC ROTARY, The           3 32R   1
Misses CRAMB OF LINLITHGOW   3 32J   1
MY HEATHER HILLS             3 48J   2
OLD WAY OF KILLICRANKIE      3 48R   8
RODGER'S FIVE-O REEL         3 64R   1
SOUND OF HARRIS, The         3 48H   4
TAPPIE TOORIE                3 32R   1
TWO OF THE BEST              3 32J   1

Thought it might be of interest to some of the folks on Strathspey

George Meikle

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