The Haughs of Cromdale ~ Wilson
The Haughs of Cromdale ~ Wilson is an English Country Dance. It was devised by Thomas Wilson in 1816 and published in A Companion to the Ball Room, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2024. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 16 bars.
The Crib Diagram attributes this dance to Wilson, but I have my doubts.
Wilson, on page 37, writes:
SINGLE FIGURE (Each strain repeated)
Hands 3 round on the ladies side hands 3 round on the gent: side lead down the middle up again & set to the top Cu:
OR THUS The 1st lady meets & turns the 2d. gent: the 1st. gent: meet & turn the 2d lady lead down the middle up again & allemande
DOUBLE FIGURE (Tune played twice thro' with repeats)
Set & change sides with 2d. Cu: set & back again 1st lady meets and turns the 3d. gent: the 1st. gent: meets & turns the 3d. lady promenade 3 Cu: & whole poussette
Wilson's music consists of 2 four bar strains, both repeated. Wilson's dance is not set to strathspey time.
The RSCDS seems to have picked Wilson's second "Single Figure", for their version of the dance, so that is the one I interpret here.
Wilson's "Allemande" is rather different from the usual regency allemande, but I'm ignoring that. I'm also letting the 2s join in the allemande.
The animation plays at 120 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. 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.
| A1 | 1-4 | 2nd corners meet and two hand turn |
| A2 | 1-4 | 1st corners meet and two hand turn |
| B1 | 1-4 | 1s lead down, turn and lead back to 2nd place as 2s move up |
| B2 | 1-4 | Right allemande |
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