Dance: The Moray Rant

48-bar Strathspey
3 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 3
Progression: 231

Devised by:
John Drewry (1968)
Formations:
Reel of three - crossing (REEL;CRSING;R3;)
Figure of Eight - half (FIG8;1C;HALF;)
Hands round - 4 (HR;4P;)
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:
Strathspey travel
Note: This list may be incomplete.
Featured in:
42nd Frankfurt Spring Ball 2010
Published in:
Silver City Book of SCD [5] *
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [112]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [106]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [133]
Recommended Music:
The Duchess Tree (James Scott Skinner)
Tae Gar Ye Loup (Drummond Cook)
Recordings (6): Show tunes
Best Foot Forward (Sound Company), track 3 [pace 62.2]
Highlander Music Scottish Dances Vol 8 (David Anderson & his S.D.B.), track 5 [pace 64.0]  [has sample]
Special Requests Volume 4 (Colin Dewar and his Scottish Dance Band), track 11 [pace 63.1]  [has sample]
The Road to Forfar (The Deirdre Adamson Quartet), track 12 [pace 62.2]
A Dancing Master Remembered (Jennifer Wilson), track 3 [pace 64.7]
Nice to See You Again (Ian Cruickshanks and his Band), track 6 [pace 62.7]

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Crib

1-8Inveran reels{6} | 1C cross RH to (1x,2,3)
9-161C set advancing, turn BH ; lead down between 2C, cast behind 3C and dance in to face 3C (1M faces 3W, 1W faces 3M)
17-241M+3W set and turn RH while 1W+3M set and turn LH [i.e. 1C go out the sides] ; 1C lead up , out between 2’s and cast round to finish 1M facing 2W and 1W facing 2M
25-321M+2W set and turn LH while 1W+2M set and turn RH [again 1C out the sides. finish 1x,2,3] 1C ½ Fig8 round 2’s to finish at top on own sides
33-401C+2C dance 4H round to left, 1C face 2C with NHJ & set, 1C cast off one place while 2C lead up
41-481C+3C repeat bars 33-40 to finish (2,3,1)
Crib needs checked · Source: Eric T. Ferguson ·

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