10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOURSOME REEL»
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The Crooked Stovepipe: Athapaskan Fiddle Music and Square ...
J. F. and T. M. Flett ( 1964: 1 35), two other Scottish dance historians, say the
Foursome Reel lasted in Scotland until sometime after World War I but that after
1880 it was danced in combination with the Reel of Tulloch. More interesting for ...
2
Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia. Vol. 1-
They took with them Ruidhleadh Cheathrar ('Foursome Reel'), also known as
Ruidhleadh Bheag ('The Small Reel'), and the eight-handed reel, Ruidhleadh
Mor ('The Big Reel'). The Foursome Reel is similar to the old west Highland
circular ...
3
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
ounmam ' Do as thou likes, Tibbie, thou'rt auldeneugh to trke care 0' thyself. - ma
anacnwoon (to a pretty young Girl in a white gown and pink ribbons.) ' My dear,
it's to be a foursome .reel. May I have the pleasure of standing before you.
4
The London and Edinburgh magazine
... who still flourished as a George the Fourth's beauty, being fat, fair, and forty,
could not resist his instant wishes,) that he and mine host, and the two ladies last
named, should open the ball with a foursome reel. Blushes, and ' Oh dear, sir!
5
Tales Until Dawn: The World of a Cape Breton Gaelic Story-teller
They were very light and lively on the dance floor and it would give great
pleasure to those at the dances to escort them. The foursome reel, to my memory,
was never danced. I never saw a foursome reel danced unless they danced it in
a ...
Joe Neil MacNeil, John William Shaw, 1987
6
Challenges in Natural Language Processing
1. any of various lively Scottish dances, such as the eightsome reel and foursome
reel, for a fixed number of couples who combine in square and circular
formations. 2. a piece of music having eight quavers to the bar composed for or in
the ...
Madeleine Bates, Ralph M. Weischedel, 2006
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Performed by four together. Sc. A Scotch foursome reel, Scot-r li'm'rrlgh814) xxviii
. Or.l. The spirit-Stirring ' foursome reels' of the peasantry. \'EDDER Stu-fellas (
183:) 107. n.Sc. To tell of the songs, the stories, the grimaces. the 'foursome reels,
' ...
8
Thought Outdanced: The Motif of Dancing in Yeats and Joyce
... there are several Scottish reels, which are scattered all over the Wake, for
example: Hamilton House ("haughty hamiltons" 438.36), Gay Gordon (ibid.),
Postie's Jig, and Foursome Reel ("ladies' foursome", 395.05). The reel suggests
both in ...
9
The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles
6) though the foursome reel does not seem to have been danced much by
Shetlanders but more by the Scots lasses and others visiting the islands. The
term 'spring' would seem to be the older Shetland name and is probably of
Scandinavian ...
My dear, it's to be a foursome reel. May I have the pleasure of standing before
you 1 Fiddlei s, play " I'll gang nae mair to yon town," — it's the King's favorite.
Chieftain, (to his Partner, after a kiss.) Let me hand you to tho dresser. Meg. I'm a'
in a ...
John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, 1867
