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Dance Lord Rosslyn's Fancy 3953

Jig · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4   (Progression: 213) · Usual number of repetitions: 8

Devised by
Thomas (19C) Wilson
Intensity
880/888/880/888 = 83% (1 turn), 62% (whole dance)
Formations
Steps
  • Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change
Published in
Recommended Music
Extra Info
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Source:  Dances for 1813, published by Button and Whitaker, 1813.

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Source:  Dances for 1813, published by Button and Whitaker, 1813.
Lord Rosslyn's Fancy
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Lord Rosslyn was a Scot turned English politician.

Alexander Wedderburn was born in 1733, the son of Peter Wedderburn,
who when made a Lord of Session styled himself Lord Chesterhall.
Wedderburn attended Edinburgh University and studied at the Inner Temple.
To please his father, Wedderburn returned to Scotland for a short time and qualified for the bar
but in 1757 he went to London and the Inner Temple.
Through the influence of his friends,
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713–1792) and William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705–1793),
he put his feet on the first rungs of the political ladder.
First Solicitor-General, then Attorney-General,
he became Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1780 as Lord Loughborough
and in 1793 he was made Lord Chancellor, in which post he remained until 1801.
Politically unstable, Wedderburn swung from Tory to Whig and back to Tory
during the course of his career.
In 1801 he was created first Earl of Rosslyn and he retired from public life.
He died at his English estate in 1805 and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Since it was a well-known fact that Lord Rosslyn was, though a brilliant orator, an exceedingly dull man,
it is surprising thgat a dance was devised in his honour,
but perhaps there was pride taken in his accomplishments, particularly when viewed from a distance.

Table rows with a green background denote recordings starting with one of the recommended tunes and the usual number of repetitions for the dance (8). 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.

NameArtistAlbumMediaTrkTypeTimePaceClip
Lord Rosslyn's Fancy Fiddlers Three Plus Two Book 14/15. Music for Scottish Country Dances (2) MC 5 J32 84:40 35.0
Lord Rosslyn's Fancy The Danelaw Country Dance Band A Taste of Andrew Rankine LP+ 1 J32 80:00 0.0
Lord Rosslyn's Fancy The Danelaw Country Dance Band Tunes from The Newcastle Collection LP 8 J32 80:00 0.0
Lord Rosslyn's Fancy Jimmy Shand and his Band A Scottish Choice LP 7 J32 84:20 32.5
Lord Rosslyn's Fancy Rob Gordon and his Band Caledonian Ball, The - Vol 2 LP 5 J32 80:00 0.0
Lord Rosslyn's Fancy Jimmy Blair and his Scottish Dance Band Scottish Country Dances Volume 2 LP 6 J32 80:00 0.0
Lord Rosslyn's Fancy Neil Barron and his Scottish Dance Band Book 15 CD 6 J32 84:35 34.4
Lord Rosslyn's Fancy Rutherford, Maureen & Copland, Neil Medal Tests for Young Dancers (2006) CD 26 J32 21:16 38.0
Lord Rosslyn's Fancy Rob Gordon and his Band Let's Go Scottish Country Dancing Vol 1 CD 4 J32 84:30 33.8
Lord Rosslyn's Fancy 3/4L · J32
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1–
: 1c+2c set | ½ RHA ; set | ½ LHA
9–
: 1c+2c+3c set | cross RH ; repeat, 1c+2c finishing for
17–
: 1c+2c Poussette, 1c finishing in the middle for
25–
: 2c+1c+3c DTr.
Lord Rosslyn's Fancy 3/4L · J32
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1-8
: 1s+2s set, dance 1/2 RH across, set & dance 1/2 LH across
9-16
: 1s+2s+3s all set & cross RH, set & cross back RH
17-24
: 1s+2s dance Poussette. 2 1 3
25-32
: 1s dance Double Triangles

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