strathspey@strathspey.org:47869

Mike Briggs

Re: [Fwd: Dances for 4 or 5 people]

Jan. 23, 2007, 12:51 a.m. (Message 47869, in reply to message 47860)

Here's one of Terry Glasspool's four-person dances, this one  written 
for me and Norma.  I don't think it's been published yet, so it may be 
subject to correction by Terry, but to my mind it works like a charm.  
It's 32 bars long, but broken into an 8-bar phrase and two 12-bar 
phrases.  I wrote a tune for it that fits the phrasing.  If anyone would 
like the tune, I can send a .pdf of the score and/or a .mid sound file.

Mike

*FOUR DUCKS IN A ROW
*/The dance begins with* *four dancers facing as for a reel of four,
up and down the room.  From the top they are numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4.
/1-2      All PETRONELLA TURN (the set is now square)
3-4      1 & 2 CHANGE PLACES RH (across the set)
5-6      1 & 3 CHANGE PLACES LH (diagonally)
7-8      1 & 4 TURN RH HALFWAY (they end NH joined
            and facing up, 2 & 3 join NH and face down)
9-10    All SET
11-12  All begin moving as if for a link for two, /but /3 & 4 TURN
            LH to end back to back across the dance /while /2 & 1 CHASE
           one-quarter CW so that all form a line of four across the set
            (looking from the top, the order L to R is 2,  3, 4, 1)
13-16   REEL OF FOUR HALFWAY
17-20   1 & 4, AND 3 & 2, TURN RH THREE-QUARTERS (all
             now in same formation as at bar 9, but rotated 90 degrees)
21-22   All SET
23-24   //4 & 3 take LH to end back to back across the dance /while / 1 
& 2 dance
           one-quarter CW so that all form a line of four up and down 
the set
            (looking from the top, the order L to R is 2, 3, 4, 1)
25-28   REEL OF FOUR HALFWAY
29-30   1 & 4, and 3 & 2, TURN RH HALFWAY, ending in a line of four
            up  and down the set
 31-32   All SET
/Ending order is 4, 1, 2, 3.  Repeat three times/

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