31 Mar
2011
31 Mar
'11
2:11 p.m.
On 26/Mar/11 15:55, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote:
It also occurs to me that a variation of the figure is
the core of the Scottish
dance "Flowers of Edinburgh". (It's in a triple-minor set, so the lady
casts
off past two couples and the gent cuts through after two, but it's otherwise
the same figure, done with skip-change step in eight bars instead. FoE was
published in the 1790s, I think.)
-- Alan
Collins Pocket SCD reports for FoE, "Source: collected locally.
Published in 'The Ballroom' 1827."
RSCDS Index to SCDances, and a local VISCDS "core-dance" book for
1997-2000, say it's from RSCDS Book 1, No. 6.
I don't have Book 1 (pub. 1924 I believe), however that local booklet
repeats Collins for year of publication.
A mildly cute, mildly useful rendition of it here (for geeks or the
easily amused) http://countrydance.sourceforge.net/
Cheers, John
--
J.D. Erskine
Victoria, BC
http://www3.telus.net/island_dance/
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