Dance: Glasgow Lasses

32-bar Strathspey
2 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4

Devised by:
Walsh (18C) (1748)
Formations:
Petronella - half (PET;HALF;)
Steps:
Strathspey travel
Strathspey setting
Published in:
Book 34 Scottish Country Dances [3] *
Pocket: Books 33,34,35 [11]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [58]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [55]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [72]
Recommended Music:
Miss Marston's Strathspey (Middleton)
Recordings (2): Show tunes
Book 34. Music for Eight Traditional Dances (Alastair Wood and his Scottish Dance Band), track 3 [pace 60.6]
Scottish Dance Favourites Volume 3 (Alastair Wood and his Scottish Dance Band), track 5 [pace 60.6]

Crib

1-81M+2W set and cast (2M steps up, 1W down) ; then turn BH (to 2,1)
9-161W+2M repeat bars 1-8 (1M steps up, 2W down)
17-241C+2C set, 1C cross RH ; cast off to finish between 2C | 1C+2C dance up NHJ to finish 1C BtoB between 2C
25-321C+2C set | 2C set while 1C Petronella to midline, M down, W up, and face P ; 1C dance to join RH (1W faces up) and cast off to (2,1)
Crib needs checked · Source: Eric T. Ferguson ·

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