Hagg's Castle (Medley)
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Hagg's Castle A ninety-six bar medley for four couples in a square set. Strathspey Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 11.1- 8 All four couples dance a grand chain, ladies stay facing clockwise, omitting the polite turn.
9-12 The ladies dance right hands across in a wheel half way and turn opposite man with the left hand.
13-16 The ladies dance right hands across in a wheel half way and turn partners with the left hand, ladies finish facing out.
17-32 All dance a Schiehallion reel, to start the men cross diagonally to their right whilst the ladies cast into their partner's places.
35-36 All turn partner by the right hand.
37-40 All turn corners by the left hand.
41-48 Eight hands round to the left in a circle and back to the right. Hornpipe
49-96 Repeat bars 1-48.
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
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Dance Information
Recommended tunes: Strathspey: Hagg's Castle; Hornpipe: Fisher's Hornpipe.Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 11, by John W Mitchell, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell; instructions reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-ND 4.0).
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