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Lady Jean Murray's Rant

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LADY JEAN MURRAY'S RANT (S8x32) 2C (4C set) David Rutherford RSCDS Book 10

1- 8 1M casts to 2nd place as 2L casts up to 1st place and they turn 2H 1½ times to opposite sides
9-16 1L casts down as 2M casts up and they turn 2H 1½ times to opposite sides to face their partners
17-24 2s+1s dance RH across and L H across back to places
25-32 2s+1s set twice and cross RH

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


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Lady Jean Murray's Rant is a Scottish Country Dance published by Rutherford in c. 1756 (who called it "Lady Jane Murray's Rant) and interpreted in RSCDS Book 10 in 1935.

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