Dance: The Happy Meeting
32-bar Jig
2 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4
- Devised by:
- (unknown)
- Formations:
-
Figure of Eight (FIG8;1C;)
Advance and Retire (ADVRET;2S;)
Note: This list may be incomplete.
Note: Due to limitations
in the underlying data,
the relative order of formations in this list may be different
from the order of formations in the actual dance.
- Steps:
- Skip-Change
Note: This list may be incomplete.
- Published in:
-
Book 29
[9]
*
Collins Pocket Reference
[126]
Pocket: Books 28,4-for-1978,29
[25]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7
[63]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6
[60]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8
[77]
- Recommended Music:
-
Greenholm
((traditional))
- Recordings (11):
Show tunes
-
Book 29. Music for Ten Traditional Dances
(Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 9
[pace 33.8]
Scottish Dance Favourites Volume 2
(Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 5
[pace 33.8]
Highlander Music Old Masters Volume 2
(The Tain Band),
track 12
[pace 35.6]
Swing Your Partners
(The Tain Band),
track 4
[pace 35.6]
The Bobby Brown Collection
(Bobby Brown and The Scottish Accent),
track 3
[pace 33.1]
The Island Fling
(Bobby Brown and The Scottish Accent),
track 3
[pace 33.1]
Teachers Certificate Examination
(Muriel A Johnstone),
track 13
Bow and Curtsy
(Jim Dawson and his Scottish Country Dance Band),
track 1
[pace 33.2]
The Happy Meeting
(The Glendaruel Scottish Dance Band),
track 12
Strictly Scottish Volume Two
(Robert Whitehead & the Danelaw Band),
track 2
Scottish Country Dances Vol 3
(The Ian Muir Sound),
track 2
Crib
| 1-8 | 1M+2W dance ¾ LSh round P, pass down/up RSh, cast R round standing M/W to places |
| 9-16 | 1W+2M repeat mirrorwise (other shoulders) |
| 17-24 | 1C slip down the middle | set (1M starts L foot) ; slip to top | cast off (2C up) |
| 25-32 | 2C+1C A&R (all clap) ; turn P RH |
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