ins_from_aberdeen
From Aberdeen
Triple minor for as many as will
Playford's Dancing Master of 1695
Adapted by Colin Hume in 2016
A 8 First couple cast to second place (second lead up) 4 First couple turn 3/4 both hands. 4 First man fall back between and below third couple, first lady between and above second couple. B1 4 First man and third couple circle left once around, first lady and second couple the same. 4 First man go left outside third man, first lady go left outside second lady to 4 First man circle with men and first lady circle with ladies. 4 All open up to end in line (first couple in second place). B2 8 As B1, with first couple in opposite places. 8 As B1, but first man with second and third ladies, first lady with second and third men. 4 First couple turn halfway both hands into progressed place (proper).
Recordings: from_aberdeen--044.mp3.zip
from_aberdeen--037.mp3.zip
from_aberdeen-b7-052_gmdm.mp3.zip
from_aberdeen-snqp-b4d.mp3.zip
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UKFXH39Zo4&t=23s
Scotch SONG:
- From Aberdeen to Edenborough
- I trudg’d it with my Bearn
- And thence to London town did go,
- News of my Love to learn.
- And now the bonny Lad is come
- To Royal Willy here,
- So I'se e’en gang contented home,
- Sin I have got my dear, &c.
(Motteux, Love's a Jest, 18)
In his Northern Memoirs (1694), the eccentric writer Richard Franck makes his interlocutors say:
Arnoldus. And this is that famous Aberdeen, whose western suburbs are
guarded by the hills; as are those levels more easternly saluted by the ocean.
Theophilus. Is this that Aberdeen so generally discours'd by the Scots for
civility?
Arn. Yes. and humanity too; for it’s the paragon of Scotland.
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