Scottish Country Dancing

Author : David Ewart
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781851588459
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Ceilidh Dancing written by David Ewart and published by Mainstream Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Say goodbye to squashed feet, sore toes and dizzy heads with Scottish Ceilidh Dancing. Guiding you through intricate dance steps and various hand holds in simple, straightforward language, this book introduces you to the exuberant world of the Dashing White Sergeant, the Gay Gordons, the Gypsy Tap and the Lucky Seven, to name but a few. All your old favourites are here and, with over fifty dances, there's something for everyone, from the simple routines of the Dinkie One-Step, to the more adventurous Southern Rose Waltz and the Posties Jig.

Author : The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008261539
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Dance: A celebration of Scottish dancing (Collins Little Books) written by The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect introduction to the world of Scottish dance written by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, including a short history of Scottish dancing. The book takes you through simple ceilidh moves to more complex formations and set dances, illustrated through diagrams and photos.

Author : Mats Melin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000334333
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance Legacies of Scotland written by Mats Melin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices. Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover explore the historical references describing percussive dancing to illustrate how widespread the practice was, giving some glimpses of what it looked and sounded like. The authors also explain what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from Scottish dancing practices. Their research draws together fieldwork, references from historical sources in English, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic, and insights drawn from the authors’ practical knowledge of dances. They portray the complex network of dance dialects that existed in parallel across Scotland, and share how remnants of this vibrant tradition have endured in Scotland and the Scottish diaspora to the present day. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Dance and Music and its relationship to the history and culture of Scotland.

Author : Patricia H. Ballantyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780429434150
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Dance Beyond 1805 written by Patricia H. Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish Dance Beyond 1805 presents a history of Scottish music and dance over the last 200 years, with a focus on sources originating in Aberdeenshire, when steps could be adapted in any way the dancer pleased. The book explains the major changes in the way that dance was taught and performed by chronicling the shift from individual dancing masters to professional, licensed members of regulatory societies. This ethnographical study assesses how dances such as the Highland Fling have been altered and how standardisation has affected contemporary Highland dance and music, by examining the experience of dancers and pipers. It considers reactions to regulation and standardisation through the introduction to Scotland of percussive step dance and caller-facilitated ceilidh dancing. Today's Highland dancing is a standardised and international form of dance. This book tells the story of what changed over the last 200 years and why. It unfolds through a series of colourful characters, through the dances they taught and the music they danced to and through the story of one dance in particular, the Highland Fling. It considers how Scottish dance reflected changes in Scottish society and culture. The book will be of interest to scholars and postgraduates in the fields of Dance History, Ethnomusicology, Ethnochoreology, Ethnology and Folklore, Cultural History, Scottish Studies and Scottish Traditional Music as well as to teachers, judges and practitioners of Highland dancing and to those interested in the history of Scottish dance, music and culture.

Author : Andy Greig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910745380
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Favourite Ceilidh Dances written by Andy Greig and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new book of dances is always a delight, and this book is set to inspire the dancer, the caller and the teacher of social dances. There are new dances, well-known dances, and dances that Greig does differently in this book and thus it is an adventure of dance. The calling hints come in very handy for the inexperienced caller. The only up-to-date collection of the best in Scottish dancing.

Author : Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Country Dance Book written by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scottish Country Dance Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 24 Favourite Scottish Country Dances written by Scottish Country Dance Society and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Celeste Ray
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469625806
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highland Heritage written by Celeste Ray and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes, however, the Scottish affiliation that Americans claim today is a Highland Gaelic identity that did not come to characterize that nation until long after the ancestors of many Scottish Americans had left Scotland. Ray explores how Highland Scottish themes and lore merge with southern regional myths and identities to produce a unique style of commemoration and a complex sense of identity for Scottish Americans in the South. Blending the objectivity of the anthropologist with respect for the people she studies, she asks how and why we use memories of our ancestral pasts to provide a sense of identity and community in the present. In so doing, she offers an original and insightful examination of what it means to be Scottish in America.

Author : Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highland Dancing written by Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Milligan
Publisher : Noverre Press
ISBN 13 : 9781914311321
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dances of Scotland written by Jean Milligan and published by Noverre Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enthusiasm with which Scottish gatherings all over the world welcome the strains of a Reel tune or a stately Strathspey is no less marked today than it was in the eighteenth century, when an English visitor to an Edinburgh ballroom noted, 'The moment one of these tunes is played, up they start, and you would imagine they had been bit by a tarantula.' Some of the dwindling antique treasure of music and dance is now being recovered, including such dances as the weird 'Carlin of the Mill Dust' and the fascinating 'Hebridean Weaving Lilt' from the Isles. More commonly known are the highland step-dances and the country dances; step-notation and music for four of these are provided in this book. Also included is a bibliography for further study, and four colour-plates showing authentic costumes. Miss Milligan, one of the founders of the Scottish Country Dance Society, played a leading part in the preservation and teaching of Scottish dances. Mr. MacLennan, renowned as an expert of Highland dancing, made a lifelong study of Scottish dances, bringing to light many not hitherto generally known.