Dance Lamb Skinnet 3672
Jig · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)
- Devised by
- Thompson (18C) (1751)
- Intensity
- 800 800 800 880 = 41% (1 turn), 31% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Figure of Eight - half (FIG8;1C;HALF;)
- Rights and Lefts (R&L)
- Steps
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- Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change
- Published in
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- Book 14 [12]
- Scottish Country Dances Books 13 to 18 (Combined A5 edition) [25]
- Pocket: Books 13,14,15 [24]
- Collins Pocket Reference: Scottish Country Dancing [28]
- A Guide to Scottish Country Dancing (ex-Collins) [28]
- 101 Scottish Country Dances [58]
- Thirty Popular Scottish Country Dances [17]
- Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances [18C]
- Fifty Scottish Dances [25]
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 9 [303] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [389] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [354] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [343] (diagram only)
- Recommended Music
- Extra Info
- The Society’s version of this dance can be traced to “Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances” (c. 1755) …
The Society’s version of this dance can be traced to “Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances” (c. 1755) where it was published without setting in bars 1–4 and 9–12.
Several meanings of the name have been discussed. A very likely on is that name traces back to a card game, since the tune is also known under similar names like “Lamb Skinnett”, “Lambskinnet”, “Lanquenet”, “Lansquenet”. Lansquenet is the French writing and pronunciation of the German term “Landsknecht” which refers to a foot soldier in foreign service. And there is also a card game with the same name likely introduced by these mercenary soldiers.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) states for “Lansquenet”:
- A German foot soldier in foreign service in the 15th and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; — a term used in France and Western Europe.
- A game at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet.
Try the 5-couple version of this - Skamb Linnet
Some versions of the instructions for bars 17–24 of this dance have 1st couple dancing above 1st place in 4 bars, setting, then casting with 3rd couple stepping down on 23–24 (and 2nd couple not moving). This was reflected in the original version of the e-crib. However the revised version of Book 14 has 1st couple dancing up to 1st place as 2nd & 3rd couples step down, then 2nd couple step up again as 1st couple cast. The e-crib was updated to show this version. Although not in the current RSCDS version, Stephen Webb reported that Jean Milligan’s Won’t You Join the Dance suggests bars 17–20 should be 1 to dance in, 2 to dance up and 1 to dance out. The e-crib shows this.
Lamb Skinnet
Life for the shepherds on the hills was hard and even more difficult was lambing time. The ewes very often lost a lamb and if the shepherd felt it necessary that the ewe take another lamb to feed, the skin of the dead lamb was tied onto the body of the substitute.
Lamb Skinnet 3/4L · J32
- 1–
- 1c set, cast off one place (2c up), ½ Fig8 up round 2c (2,1x,3)
- 9–
- Repeat with 3c (2,3,1)
- 17–
- 1c lead to top: in{1}, up{2}, out{1} (2c+3c down on [19–20]) ; set to P | cast off (2c up)
- 25–
- 2c+1c R&L (2,1,3)
Lamb Skinnet 3/4L · J32
- 1-8
- 1s set, cast 1 place (2s step up 3-4) & dance 1/2 Fig of 8 up round 2s. 2 (1) 3
- 9-16
- 1s set, cast to 3rd place (3s step up) & dance 1/2 Fig of 8 up round 3s. 2 3 1
- 17-24
- 1s lead up to top, (2s & 3s step down 19-20); 1s set & cast to 2nd place (2s step up 23-24)
- 25-32
- 2s+1s dance R&L
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