Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Dr McHardy

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

Dr McHardy A thirty-two bar Strathspey for four couples in a four couple longwise set, devised by John W Mitchell, Published In Whetherly Book 3.

1- 2 First and fourth couples cross over giving right hand in passing.
3- 4 First couple cast off, second couple step up and fourth couple cast up, third couple step down.
5- 8 First and fourth couples dance four hands round in a circle to the left. On bar 8 they all turn right about to finish back to back in the centre of the set, all facing their corners.
9-16 Corners petronella round a double Hello-Goodbye setting (see appendix).
17-18 First and fourth couples turn their corners once round with the right hand.
19-22 First and fourth couples dance left hands across In a wheel once round; whilst second and third couples dance half way round the set in a clockwise chase to finish in their original corner positions on own side.
23-24 First and fourth couples turn their new corners once round with the right hands to finish on the sidelines facing up and down in the order 2, 4, 1, 3 all on own side of the set.
25-32 Reels of four on the sides of the set passing by the right shoulder to commence.

Repeat with new top couple.

(Dance crib compiled by Alison Mitchell, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, 2020)


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(Dance information by Alison Mitchell, under the CCA NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, 2020)


Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 3, reproduced here under this Creative Commons Attribution - NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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