Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Fight About The Fireside

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FIGHT ABOUT THE FIRESIDE (R8x32) 3C (4C set) Nathaniel Gow RSCDS Book 1

1- 8 1s lead down the middle and up to end facing 1st corners
9-16 1s dance reels of 3 across giving RSh to 1st corner (1s end facing 1st corners)
17-24 1s set and turn 1st corners, set and turn 2nd corners ending in 2nd place opposite sides
25-32 1s set twice and turn 2H 1½ times

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)


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Fight about the Fireside is a Scottish Country Dance published by Longman & Broderip in 1781 republished by the Lowes in c. 1831, and interpreted by the RSCDS in Book 1, published 1924.

(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of George Williams)


Fight About The Fireside (also known as Road to Arisaig, Strathspey in Memory of Angus Allan Gillis, White Clover, Fecht Aboot the Fireside) is the title of a tune appearing in Complete Repository Part 1, page 91, edited/compiled by Niel And Nathaniel Gow c. 1799.

This Scottish country dance was probably first printed in the "Gow's Five Favourite Country Dances" c. 1822.

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Fight About The Fireside
Fight About The Fireside, From Dance music of Scotland, Page 31, c. 1870


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