Scottish country dance videos may help, as in many cases there is no caller, and 40-bar/80-beat dances are much more common than in contra. For example, here's Mairi's Wedding, a forty-bar reel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpLfLurI5s Or search for Type: Reel or Jig; Bars: 40; Video: checked on http://my.strathspey.org/dd/search/dance/. Two provisos - SCDs usually run only eight times through and the music goes rather more slowly than contra (108-16 vs 120-130 bpm). Yours faithfully, Edmund Croft, Cambridge, UK. Jonathan King wrote: