strathspey@strathspey.org:8402

Peter M. Price

Re: Drumelzier

Aug. 1, 1997, 3:22 a.m. (Message 8402, in reply to message 8383)

Drumelzier and Hogmanay Jig are from a leaflet from the Newcastle and District
Branch of the RSCDS published in 1967. Dances composed by Christopher Blair
music (of the same name as the dance), composed by Andrew Rankine.

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Peter Price
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The dancers are formed in two long ranks, facing each other, and the battle
opens with some light skirmishing between the pickets, which is gradually
resolved into a general engagement along the whole line; after that you have
nothing to do but stand by and grab every lady that drifts within reach of you,
and swing her. It is very entertaining, and elaborately scientific also.
Samuel Clemens,	1862
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