Dance: Earlstoun Loch
32-bar Reel
5 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 5
Progression: 24153
- Devised by:
- Hugh Foss
- Formations:
-
Double Triangles (DBLTRI)
Note: This list may be incomplete.
- Steps:
- Pas-de-Basque
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- Published in:
-
Glendarroch Scottish Dance Sheets
[1]
*
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6
[42]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7
[44]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8
[55]
- Full description:
- http://www.dancearchives.co.uk/dances/glendarroch/earlstoun.htm
- Recommended Music:
-
Miss Forbes' Farewell to Banff (Isaac Cooper)
- Recordings (7):
Show tunes
-
Selected Scottish Country Dances (Jim MacLeod and his Band),
track 7
Let's Dance Again... (Alastair Hunter & the Lorne Scottish Dance Band),
track 8
[pace 35.6]
Craigellachie in Oxford (The Craigellachie Band),
track 12
[pace 34.8]
Scottish Dance Masters, The Vol 2 (Ron Gonnella & Iain MacPhail),
track 8
Hey Johnnie Cope and seven other SCD/Foss (Peter White and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 3
Ken and Friends (Ken Slaven and others),
track 1
[pace 34.4]
The Road to Forfar (The Deirdre Adamson Quartet),
track 14
[pace 35.8]
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Earlstoun Loch
Crib
| 1-8 | 1C+3C cross RH, cast off (2C+4C up) ; cross LH, cast left looping round 4cnr into BtB in 2pl/4pl facing own side for |
| 9-16 | Double DTr (to 2,1,4,3,5) |
| 17-24 | 1C+3C lead down one, cast up one ; turn RH and lead up (2C+4C down) to original positions facing down, other couples face up. |
| 25-32 | 1C facing 2C & 3C facing 4C set and turn BH ½ ; 1C facing 4C & 3C facing 5C set and turn BH ½ (to 2,4,1,5,3) |
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