The Highland Fair

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1- 8 1s cast, dance down behind own lines, turn outwards and dance back to place
9-16 1s+2s turn partners RH back to place and then turn LH
17-24 1s followed by 2s, lead down the middle and 2s lead back to the top
25-32 2s+1s dance R&L

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

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The opera was based on Scots tunes although there is little evidence to suggest that the tunes are all of Highland origin, or indeed whether Mitchell had ever even visited the Scottish Highlands.

Joseph Mitchell (1684-1738) also presented Fatal Extravagance, a 1721 tragedy penned by the British writer Aaron Hill at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London, and Poems On Several Occasions printed for the author and sold by J. Catterns in 1732.

Highland Fair, Or, Union Of The Clans - From 'The Glen Collection Of Printed Music, Frontispiece, c. 1833-1904

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