Dance Duns 500 1854

Also known as “Duns 500 Strathspey”.

Strathspey · 64 bars · 4 couples · Square (Progression: OnceOnly) · Usual number of repetitions: ?

Devised by

Wilma Miller (1990)

Intensity

8080 0808 8888 8080 0808 4444 8888 8888 = 68% (1 turn), 69% (whole dance)

Formations

Reel of four (REEL;R4;)
Hands across - 4 (HX;4P;)
Rights and Lefts (R&L)
Ladies' Chain (LCHAIN)
Hands round - 8 - and back (HR;8P;BACK;)

Steps

Strathspey setting, Strathspey travel

Published in

The Ladies of Dunse [7]
The Allanton Collection [8]

Recommended Music

Eagle Hall (Muriel A Johnstone)

Extra Info

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Devised to mark the quincentenary in 1990 of the granting of the Burgh of …

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Devised to mark the quincentenary in 1990 of the granting of the Burgh of Barony Charter to Duns, the county town of Berwickshire.  The tune, Eagle Hall, is the home of the well-known accordionist Marian Anderson.

Table rows with a green background denote recordings starting with one of the recommended tunes and the usual number of repetitions for the dance (?). A yellow background means a recording with one of the recommended tunes but a non-standard number of repetitions. Recordings with a red background use a different tune and possibly a non-standard number of repetitions.

Recordings whose titles are in italics are not explicitly linked to this dance but have been identified by the database based on the type, bar count, and recommended tune(s) of the dance.

	Name	Artist	Album	Media	Trk	Type	Time	Pace	Clip
	Duns 500	Muriel A Johnstone	Dancing Fingers 2	CD+	10	S64	2:30	0
	Duns 500	Muriel A Johnstone	The Ladies of Dunse	MC	7	S64	0:00	0

Duns 500 4S · S64

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1–
: 1c+3c Reel4, the W pass Lsh to start and loop at the ends
9–
: 2c+4c repeat
17–
: 1c+4c & 2c+3c RHA ; LHA
25–
: 1c+3c R&L
33–
: 2c+4c L-Chain
41–
: All W RHA, to places ; all M RHA finish with twirl in middle facing P
49–
: All C set twice ; turn 1¾ BH opening into
57–
: Circle8 and back

E-cribs

Duns 500 4S · S64

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1-8
: 1s+3s dance reel of 4 Ladies passing LSh to start
9-16
: 2s+4s dance reel of 4 Ladies passing LSh to start
17-24
: 1s+4s also 2s+3s dance RH across & LH back to places
25-32
: 1s+3s dance R&L
33-40
: 2s+4s dance Ladies Chain
41-48
: All 4 Ladies dance RH across once round & Men dance RH across once round
  to end in centre facing partners
49-56
: All couples set to partners twice & turn 2H back to original places
57-64
: All circle 8H round & back

MiniCribs

Keith Rose's Diagrams

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Id	Subject	Date	Submitter	Assigned to	Priority	Disposition
1667	Diagram for Duns 500	March 18, 2019, 2:11 p.m.	Jane Murray	Keith Rose	Normal	Fixed