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B
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
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| The Barley Mow ~ Hume |  | Thompson 1779 Colin Hume 2025 | Colin Hume | 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231 |
C
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation | |||||||||||||||
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The Christmas Tale
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D
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Duke of Kent's Waltz ~ Hume | | W.M. Cahusac 1801 Colin Hume 2017 | Colin Hume | Triple Minor |
F
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Fete da Village | | Thompson 1778 Colin Hume ~2025 | Colin Hume | Duple Minor |
| Le Fete du Village | | Thompson 1778 Colin Hume ~2025 | Colin Hume | Duple Minor |
| The Free Mason ~ Hume | | Thompson 1778 Colin Hume ~2025 | Colin Hume | Triple Minor |
H
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| He's aye a Kissing Me | | Thompson 1778 Colin Hume ~2025 | Colin Hume | Triple Minor |
I
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation | ||||||||||
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Irish Wash Woman
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J
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation | ||||||||||
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Jackey Tarr
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L
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Allegrante | | Dale ~1800 Colin Hume 2019 | Colin Hume | Triple Minor |
M
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marli Water Works | | Matthew Welch 1767 Pat Shaw 1963 | Colin Hume | 3 Couple Longways permutation: 231 | ||||||||||
Morpeth Rant
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N
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newport Assembly | | Thompson 1778 George Williams 2025 | Colin Hume | 2 Couple Longways |
P
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Prince's Favourite | | Dale ~1800 Colin Hume 2020 | Colin Hume | Duple Minor |
R
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Rosetta | | Thompson 1778 George Williams 2025 | Colin Hume | Triple Minor |
S
| Dance Title | Type | Deviser (or Editor/Publisher), Date, Interpreter | Music Performers | Formation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savage Dance | | Dale ~1800 Colin Hume 2020 | Colin Hume | Duple Minor |
| Number of dances | Number of versions | Number with music |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 19 | 19 |
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.
Linked-Arm Allemande
Also known as: Turn in Tullock Hold, Turn in Hullachan Hold.
Bars: 4.
In this style of Allemande, partners stand right shoulder to right, facing in opposite directions, they interlace their right arms, and put their left hands behind their backs, taking their partner's right hand in their left, and so linked turn around in a small circle.
History
The Regency Dance Site has a nice paper giving the history of the allemande in English dancing.
Nicholas Dukes does not define allemande in his book of Country Dance figures, published 1752.
The earliest use of "Allemande" (in English) which I have found is in Marli Water Works by Matthew Welch in perhaps ~1767 (though this date is debatable), and Pat Shaw interpreted it as a linked arm allemande.
In the US, Saltator, 1802 gives a clear description:
ALLEMANDE, is to put one hand behind and reach the other out side-ways, turning both palms backwards matching another person's presented in like manor, and the arms interweaving with them.
(And he goes on to use it in the dance Constancy).
According to the Fletts' Traditional Dancing in Scotland (page 148) The Reel of Tulloch (and hence Tullock Hold) was current subsequent to about 1880. Given the lack of an Allemande tradition in Scotland, it seems more likely that this way of turning evolved independently rather than being a copy of the linked arm allemande from a hundred years before.
See Also
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