The Lasses of Dunse ~ Duple
The Lasses of Dunse ~ Duple is an English Country Dance. It was published by Johnson in 1742 in A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, Vol. 2nd, London. It was interpreted by George Williams in 2022. It is a proper Duple Minor dance. The minor set lasts 32 bars.
The RSCDS interpretation seems basically the same as the original, see that for a triple minor version. The 3s just act as posts, so I think modern dancers would prefer a duple minor version.
Johnson and Rutherford published essentially the same figure. Johnson did so earlier than Rutherford, but Rutherford is available online.
The first Man Cast of and the second Woman Casts up at the same time, and turns The second Man and first Woman does the same Lead Down two Couple foot it and half Figure with the third Couple Lead up to the top foot it and half Figure with the second Couple
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.
An online description of the dance may be found here.
| 1-4 | 1st corners cast left and orbit outside into each others' places |
| 5-8 | 1st corners right turn once and a half back home |
| 9-12 | 2nd corners cast right and orbit outside into each others' places |
| 13-16 | 2nd corners left turn once and a half back home |
| 17-18 | 1s lead down below next 2s as 2s cast up |
| 19-20 | 1s set |
| 21-24 | 1s half figure eight up through couple above |
| 25-26 | 1s lead up to 2nd place |
| 27-28 | 1s set |
| 29-32 | 1s half figure eight up through original 2s |
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