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List of Scottish country dances is a list of Scottish country dances. Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots2 Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification - by Kenneth I 843 Area - Total 78...
Scottish country dancing at the 2005 Skagit Valley Highland Games in Mount Vernon, Washington Scottish country dancing, SCD or reeling is a form of social dance involving groups of mixed couples of dancers tracing progressive patterns according to a predetermined choreography. ...
Note: There is a database, called DanceData, of Scottish country dances that numbers more than 12,000 entries (at the last count), together with information on music and recordings. It is also available on the Web. Please do not bother adding the other 11,956 dances to this list here. Help improve DanceData instead. The reel is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type. ...
The jig (sometimes seen in its French language or Italian language forms gigue or giga) is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type, popular in Ireland and Scotland. ...
Street musicians in Prague playing a polka Polka is a type of dance and genre of dance music. ...
A strathspey is a dance tune in 4/4, usually written in 1/8th notes. ...
The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in 3/4 time, done primarily in closed position. ...
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. - Bees of Maggieknockater, The – 32 bar (j) for 4 couples
- Belle of Bon Accord, The – 32 bar (s) for 4 couples
- Blooms of Bon Accord - 32 bar (r) for 4 couples
- Bluebell polka – (p)
- Boston Two Step – (r)
- Circle waltz – (w)
- Clutha – 48 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Dashing white sergeant – 32 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Duke of Atholl's Reel, The - 32 bar (j) - RSCDS
- Duke & Duchess of Edinburgh – 40 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Duke of Perth, The – 32 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Earl of Mansfield, The – 48 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Eightsome reel – 464 bars (r) - RSCDS
- Express, The – 40 bar (j) - RSCDS
- Fergus McIver (a.k.a. Waverley) – 48 bars (j) - RSCDS
- Flowers of Edinburgh – 32 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Foula reel, The – 40 bar (j) - RSCDS
- Foursome reel – (s) & (r) - RSCDS
- Hamilton House – 32 bar (j) - RSCDS
- Haymakers, The (a.k.a. Sir Roger de Coverley) - 48 bar (9/8 j) - RSCDS
- Inverness country dance – 32 bar (r) - RSCDS
- La Russe – 48 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Machine without horses – 32 bar (j) - RSCDS
- Mairi’s wedding – 40 bar (r) - see also Wedding_music
- Middling, Thank you – (r) - RSCDS
- Milne, J.B. – 32 bar (r) - Hugh Foss
- Montgomeries’ Rant, The – 32 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Monymusk - 32 bar (s) - RSCDS
- Petronella – 32 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Postie’s Jig – 32 bar (j) for 4 couples - Roy Clowes
- Prince of Wales, The – (r)
- Reel of the 51st Division, The – 32 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Robertson Rant, The – 80 bar (s) danced in square formation - RSCDS
- Sailor, The – 32 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Scottish Reform – 32 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Shiftin’ Bobbins – 32 bar (r) - Roy Clowes
- Sixteensome Reel – 464 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Speed the plough – 32 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Strip the willow – 40 bar (9/8 j) - RSCDS
- Trip to Bavaria, A – 32 bar (r) for 4 couples
- Triumph, The – 24 bar (r) - RSCDS
- Waltz Country Dance – 40 bar (w) - RSCDS
- Wild Geese, The – 32 bar (j) - RSCDS
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