Dance: The White Cockade

Also known as »The White Cockup« (unofficial)

32-bar Reel
3 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4

Devised by:

Preston (18C) (1797)

Formations:

Set in line in threes (SETLIN;3P;)
Lead down and up (DWNUP;LEAD;)
Hands round - 4 (HR;4P;)
Rights and Lefts (R&L)

Steps:

Pas-de-Basque
Skip-Change
Slip-Step

Published in:

Book 5 [11] *
Pocket: Books 4,5,6 [23]
101 Scottish Country Dances [98]
Collins Pocket Reference [184]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [164]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [154]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [196]

Full description:

http://www.javastandrewsociety.com/Scottish%20Country%20Dances/whitecockade.htm

Recommended Music:

The White Cockade ((traditional))

Recordings (8): Show tunes

Book 5. Music for Twelve Traditional Dances (Kenny Thomson and the Wardlaw Scottish Dance Band), track 8 [pace 34.2]  
Jimmy's Fancy (Jimmy Shand and his Band), track 1 [pace 31.9]
Scottish Dance Time Vol 4 (Stan Hamilton and his Flying Scotsmen), track 2 [pace 33.4]  
Dances of Scotland Volume 3 (Olympians Scottish Dance Band), track 3
Favourite Scottish Dance Music Vol. 2 (Jimmy Blue and his Scottish Band), track 7
On Stage With..., Volume 1 (The Thistle Band), track 1
Mooiste Muziek uit Schotland, De (Kathie O'Connor and the Happy Highlanders), track 3
Celtic Fire in the Music (Bobby Brown and The Scottish Accent), track 20 [pace 35.8]

Crib

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