Miss Agnes Loudon
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Miss Agnes Loudon A thirty-two bar Strathspey for three couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 14.1- 8 First and second couples dance right hands across in a wheel half way and set; they dance back with the left hands and then change places giving left hands on the sides.
9-16 First couple cross over giving right hand in passing, cast round their first corners to face up and down; change places giving right hand and cast round their second corners to finish in second place on the opposite side.
17-20 Six hands round to the left in a circle half way; second and third couples finish facing up and down in the centre of the set.
21-24 Second and third couples dance half rights and lefts to finish on their own sides facing out.
25-32 First couple dance reels of three on their own side of the set with second and third couples, passing the person on their left by the left shoulder to start.
Repeat from second place. Recommended tune: Miss Agnes Loudon
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 14, 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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