Miss Monaghan's Reel
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Miss Monaghan's Reel A thirty-two bar Reel for two couples in a circle round the room, first couple facing clockwise and second couple facing anticlockwise, devised by John W Mitchell, published in Whetherly Book 6.1- 8 First and second couples dance a ladies' chain.
9-16 First and second couples dance rights and lefts.
17-20 First and second couples dance right hands across in a wheel once round.
21-24 Half reel progression: everybody passes the person opposite by the right shoulder, the next person by the left shoulder and the following person by the right shoulder: to finish having passed three couples and facing fourth couple round the circle.
25-28 Left hands across in a wheel with new opposites.
29-32 Back to back with own partner.
Repeat from new places. Recommended tune: Miss Monaghan's Reel
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 6, 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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