Lord Dalkeith's Reel

Lord Dalkeith's Reel is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Ignatius Sancho in 1779 and published in Twelve Country Dances for the Year 1779. Set for the Harpsichord, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2023. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 24 bars.

Sancho writes:

Right hands across Left hands back again the two Gentn. lead thro' between the two Ladies the two Ladies lead thro' between the two Gentn. Cross over one Cu. Right and Left at top

The music consists of three 4 bar strains.

I shall assume the Cross over one Cu. includes the 1s two hand turning half to become proper.

The tune was published with the dance. It was performed by the Odd Sundays Garage Band (Judy Linsenberg, Shira Kammen and Patti Cobb). The music is used with permission from the Odd Sundays Garage Band.

The animation plays at 106 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily (no music plays during this slow set). Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.

The dances of George Williams (including interpretations like this one) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.

A11-4Right hands across...
A21-4...and left hands back
B11-4Men lead through women and cast back to place
B21-4Women lead through men and cast back to place
C11-41s cross, go below, and two hand turn half, as 2s lead up
C21-4Face partner, four changes of a circular hey

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