strathspey@strathspey.org:40416

Norma or Mike Briggs

Strathglass House (was: Lead - Right hands or Nearer Hands)

Jan. 26, 2005, 8:50 p.m. (Message 40416)

Now I'm confused.  Rosemary, I don't doubt that you're correct in 
stating that the 18c term "cross over two couples" translates into the 
modern term "cross, cast, cross, cast."  Where I got lost was at the 
point where you said that in the 18c the figure required only 4 bars of 
music, thus the difficulty faced by the RSCDS editors.

Why shouldn't a fair interpretation be as follows?

Bars  Movement
1     1C cross RH
2     1C cast off below 2C
3     1C cross RH
4     1C cast off below 3C
5-6   1C lead to top
7-8   1C cast off (2C step up) to finish in the middle facing 1st corners	

Any ideas why the RSCDS editors substituted "advance and retire" for 
"lead out sides" at bars 25-28 and called for the circle to keep going 
left at bars 7-8 rather going back to the right (as I think is implied 
by the phrase "back again?"

Mike


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