Dance: West's Hornpipe
32-bar Reel
4 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4
- Devised by:
- (unknown)
(1797)
- Formations:
-
Reel of three (Gates of Edinburgh) (REEL;DOUBLE;GE;R3;)
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:
- Skip-Change
Slip-Step
Note: This list may be incomplete.
- Published in:
-
Five Traditional Scottish Country Dances For 1965
[3]
*
Pocket: Books 5-for-1965,23,24
[3]
Collins Pocket Reference
[183]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7
[163]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6
[153]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8
[195]
- Recommended Music:
-
Robertson's Hornpipe
((traditional))
- Recordings (13):
Show tunes
-
Tweedside
(Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 13
[pace 35.2]
Highlander Music Scottish Dances Vol 2
(Neil Barron and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 13
[pace 35.0]
Terpsichore, Scottish Dance Music
(Terpsichore),
track 6
[pace 36.5]
Come Scottish Country Dancing
(The Deirdre Adamson Quartet),
track 15
[pace 36.0]
Let's Dance Again. Volume 2
(Alastair Hunter & the Lorne Scottish Dance Band),
track 8
[pace 36.0]
Music for Ten Scottish Country Dances
(Bobby Crowe and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 3
[pace 35.0]
Play Favourites
(Don Bartlett and the Scotians),
track 4
[pace 34.0]
Down South
(Charlie Jemmett and His Band),
track 5
[pace 36.4]
Special Requests Volume 3
(The Colin Dewar Quartet),
track 2
[pace 37.0]
75th Anniversary Dances
(Craig McCallum's Scottish Dance Band),
track 12
[pace 35.2]
Tunes from The Newcastle Collection
(The Danelaw Country Dance Band),
track 10
Gang on the Same Gate
(Green Ginger),
track 7
[pace 37.2]
Hielan' Laddie
(Jimmy Blair and his Scottish Dance Band),
track 8
Crib
| 1-8 | 1C+2C+3C mirror Reels3 on opposite sides (1C cross down, 2C out and up) |
| 9-16 | Repeat, 1C now on own sides |
| 17-24 | 1C lead down : and up to top NHJ facing 2C |
| 25-32 | 1C set to 2C | dance to the bottom (2C+3C+4C up) and turn inwards into ; 4C+1C circle4 left. |
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