Todlen Hame
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
TODLEN HAME (J8x32) 3C (4C set) Thomas Wilson 1816 RSCDS Book 161- 8 1s+2s dance a reel of 4 across the dance (1L and 2M pass LSh, 1M and 2L dance to their Left to start). 1s end in 2nd place. 213
9-16 2s+1s+3s dance Grand Chain
17-24 2s+1s dance R&L
25-32 1s dance down below 3s, cast up on own sides, dance up between 2s and cast to 2nd places on own sides
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
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Todlen Hame is a Scottish Country Dance first published by Thomas Wilson in 1816. It was interpreted by the RSCDS in Book 16, 1951.Wilson wrote:
SINGLE FIGURE 1st. strain played straight thro 2d. repeated
Hey on your own sides -
swing with right hands round 2d. Cu: then with left -
OR THUS Cross over one Cu: half figure round the 3d. Cu: -
& lead outsides -
DOUBLE FIGURE Tune played twice thro as marked
Whole figure at top -
Chain figure 6 round -
lead down the middle up again & right & left with top Cu: -
& lead through the bottom & top
Hey on your own sides -
swing with right hands round 2d. Cu: then with left -
OR THUS Cross over one Cu: half figure round the 3d. Cu: -
& lead outsides -
DOUBLE FIGURE Tune played twice thro as marked
Whole figure at top -
Chain figure 6 round -
lead down the middle up again & right & left with top Cu: -
& lead through the bottom & top
The music is an eight bar strain and a four bar strain. In the double figure (which is what the RSCDS uses) these should be played ABBABB.
(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of George Williams)
"Todlen Hame" is Scots for "ambling, going home slowly"
Todlen Hame Crib - Before Minicrib
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