Community Dances Manual

Revised Edition Edited by Les Barclay and Ian Jones

The first volume of the Community Dances Manual, a compilation of English and American country dances, was published by EFDSS in 1947, followed by six further volumes over the next seventeen years. More recently the seven parts were put together and published under one cover. All the dances from the previous edition, except one, have been included. In this revision a standardised description of the dances is used, for greater clarity, particularly for the less experienced. The dances and tunes in this edition are set out side by side. The glossary at the end briefly describes the set formations, the steps and the figures, although these are better demonstrated and learned in a practical way from the caller or leader. For each dance a tune is suggested, and this given alongside the instructions. Other tunes may be equally suitable or may be preferred.

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Index of Dances                                                   Index of Tunes

All the Way to Galway American Spanish Waltz American Waltz Country Dance Arkansas Traveller Armstrong's Waltz Barbary Bell Barry's Best Beaux of Albany Belfast Duck Belgian Waltz Big Set - Allemande Big Set Mixer Black Jack Blaydon Races Mixer Bonnets So Blue Bonny Breast Knot (Devon) Bonny Breast Knot (Sussex) Boys of Oakhill Bridge of Athlone Bucksaw Reel Butterfly Hornpipe Camp Town Hornpipe Cheviot Rant Chorus Jig Circassian Circle Circassian Circle (Part 1) Circle Waltz College Hornpipe Corn Rigs Cottagers Cumberland Long Eight Cumberland Reel Cumberland Square Eight Danish Double Quadrille Derry Down Derry Devil's Dream Dorset Four Hand Reel Dorset Ring Dance Dorset Triumph Double Lead Through Drops of Brandy Duck for the Oyster Durham Reel East Meets West Fairfield Fancy Fifth Column Reel Fisher's Hornpipe Flowers of Edinburgh Follow Your Lovers Foula Reel Galopede Glover's Reel Goathland Square Eight Good Girl Green Mountain Volunteer Haste to the Wedding Haymaker's Jig Homosassa Hornpipe Hull's Victory Hullichan Hunt the Squirrel Irish Trot Jakie's Hornpipe Johnny Fetch Your Wife Back Jubilee Roundabout Judge's Jig Kate's Hornpipe Kielder Schottische La Poule Quadrille La Russe Quadrille Ladies Triumph Lady Bogart's Reel Lady of the Lake Lady Walpole's Reel Lucky Seven Margaret's Waltz Meeting Six Merry Dance Miss Brown's Reel Morpeth Rant Ninepins Norfolk Long Dance Nottingham Swing Opera Reel Patacake Polka Pin Reel Pins and Needles Piper's Fancy Ploughboy Portland Fancy Princess Royal Progressive Six Reel Quaker's Wife Queen Victoria Country Dance Rifleman Road to California Roxburgh Castle Royal Albert Russian Ballet Sackett's Harbour Sheep Hill Sicilian Circles Silly Threesome Six Reel Soldier's Joy (Somerset) Soldier's Joy (Northumberland) Spanish Waltz Spanking Jack Speed the Plough St Patrick's Day in the Morning Steam Boat Stoke Golding Country Dance Streets of Laredo Swedish, The Tempest (Wilts) Tempest (Vermont) Texas Progressive Threesome Thady You Gander Third Figure Jig Three Hand Star Three Meet Three Sea Captains Threesome Sicilian Circles Timber Salvage Reel Tom Pate Triple Promenade Triumph Twelve Reel Up the Sides and Down the Middle Virginia Reel Walpole Cottage Waltz Cotillon Waltz Country Dance Washington Quick Step Waves of Tory Wiltshire Six Hand Reel Winster Galop Yorkshire Square Eight

All the Way to Galway Ap Shenkin Arkansas Traveller Baby Lie Easy Ballantyne's Rant Barbary Bell Beaux of Oakhill Belfast Hornpipe Ben Chichester Big Corral Black Jack Blackberry Quadrille Blaydon Races Blow the Man Down Bonnets So Blue Bonny Breast Knot (Devon) Bonny Breast Knot (Sussex) Cairn on the Moor Canadian Breakdown Captain Maguire Castles in the Air Champion Cheviot Rant Chevy Chase Chorus Jig Cobbler College Hornpipe Come Dance and Sing Corn Rigs Crocker's Reel Cuckoo's Nest Cumberland Reel Curly Headed Ploughboy Doc Boyd's Jig Dorset Four Hand Reel Dorset Triumph Dorsetshire Hornpipe Double Lead Through Double Quadrille Drunken Piper Durham Rangers Fair Jenny's Jig Fairy Dance Farewell to Devon Farewell to Whisky Farmer's Jamboree Flowers of Edinburgh Four and Twenty Galopede Gilderoy Goathland Square Eight Haste to the Wedding Hesleyside Reel Hexham Races Hull's Victory Hullichan Jig Hunt the Squirrel Huntsmen's Chorus Irish Washerwoman Jack's Delight Jimmy Allen Johnny Get Your Hair Cut Jordan Jubilee Roundabout Ka-foo-zalum Kitty McGee Kitty O' Neil's Jig Knick Knack La Poule La Russe Ladies Triumph Lady in the Boat Lady of the Lake Lady Walpole's Reel Lannigan's Ball Levantine's Barrel Little Brown Jug Maggie Brown's Favourite Major Mackie's Jig Manchester or Rickett's Hornpipe Margaret's Waltz Marmaduke's Hornpipe Mary the Maid Mason's Apron Meeting Six Merry Blacksmith Miller of Stralloch Miss McLeod's Reel Money Musk Morpeth Rant Mr Sharp's Quadrille My Lodging is on the Cold Ground My Love She's But a Lassie Yet My Rose in June New Rigged Ship Nick Nack Paddy Whack Oats, Peas, Beans Old Grey Cat One Night in the Schieling Opera Reel Orcadian Jig Paddy McGinty's Goat Perfect Cure Portland Fancy Quaker's Wife Queen Victoria Country Dance Redesdale Hornpipe Roxburgh Castle Royal Albert Russian Cavalry Sally there's a Bug on Me Shaalds of Foula Shandon Bells Sheffield Hornpipe Shepton Hornpipe Six-handed Clap Dance Slashers Soldier's Joy Spaceman Speed the Plough Spitfire Reel St Patrick's Day Staffordshire Hornpipe Star of the County Down Steam Boat Still I Love Him Storrers Streets of Laredo Tempest There's Nae Luck Aboot the Hoose Three Meet Three Sea Captains Tin Gee-Gee Tipsy Parson Triumph Turkey in the Straw 'Twas Within a Mile Up Jumped the Devil Up the Sides and Down the Middle Walpole Cottage Ward's Brae When Daylight Shines Whinham's Reel White Cockade Whose? Jig Wild Rover Willie's Drowned in Yarrow Winster Galop

ISBN: 0-85418-193-8

Published EFDSS 2007