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Country Dances, Ancient and Modern

Table of Contents

C D E F I P R

C

Dance TitleTypeDeviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter		Music
Performers		Formation
The Chocolate EquationBrooke Friendly/Chris Sackett 2009
Frank Hoppe4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341

D

Dance TitleTypeDeviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter		Music
Performers		Formation
The Dream CatcherEileen Orr 2001
no musicSquare

E

Dance TitleTypeDeviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter		Music
Performers		Formation
El Camino RealRobb Quint ~2016
no music3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

F

Dance TitleTypeDeviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter		Music
Performers		Formation
Farewell to AuchterarderBill Hamilton 1967
no musicSquare
The Four BranchesBill Hartung ~2016
no music4 Couple Longways permutation: 2341

I

Dance TitleTypeDeviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter		Music
Performers		Formation
Ian Powrie's Farewell to AuchterarderBill Hamilton 1967
no musicSquare

P

Dance TitleTypeDeviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter		Music
Performers		Formation
Pat π's JigHarry Khamis ~2022
no music3 Couple Longways permutation: 231

R

Dance TitleTypeDeviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date,
Interpreter		Music
Performers		Formation
The Royal RoadRobb Quint ~2016
no music3 Couple Longways permutation: 231
Number
of dances		Number
of versions		Number
with music
661

Warning: The figures for each dance is generated programmatically by regular expression matching and may be in error. Also, for old dances, they reflect the figures used by the interpreter which may not match those of the deviser.

Parallel Reels

Also known as: Parallel Heys.

Bars: 8 bars for a full straight reel with 3 or 4 dancers.

Parallel Reels Parallel reels are usually done with three people on each side of the set. The men's line and the women's line will do the same moves in parallel, the reels start by having the top two couples pass each other by the right (sometimes left) shoulders.

History

In Cheerily and Merrily, 1651, Playford may be calling for parallel heys, or he might mean mirror heys:

Men the S. Hey, while the we. do as much

In Adson's Saraband (from the same edition) he is very careful about spelling out exactly how the mirror hey is done. But here he is much briefer. My guess (and Cecil Sharp's) is that both men and women should do a right shoulder (single) right shoulder hey on the sides, but Charles Bolton thought differently (and uses mirror heys).

The (R)SCDS first uses parallel reels in Book 5 (1929) in Dunbarton Drums. However the term "parallel reels" isn't used until Book 19 (1957) for the dance Rakish Highlandman.

See Also

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