Study Notes Copyright © William Lynch 2007
| First Figure - Right Hand Star (Jigs) | 296 bars |
| 1 | Lock and lead around: partners take waist hold and face anticlockwise around the set. Each gent places his left hand on the shoulder of the gent in front of him and all lead around to place. | 8 bars |
| Slow square: taking waltz hold, all couples slide 1, 2, 123 into the next place on their right and dance 2x3s in that place, making a ¼ turn clockwise on the last step (4 bars). They then slide into the place opposite their home place and dance 2x3s in place and making a ¼ turn clockwise (4 bars) and so on into the third place and back home. | 16 bars | |
| House around. | 8 bars | |
| 2 | 1st top couple:
Show: house within the set. |
8 bars |
| Square the set: they slide 1, 2, 123 towards the couple on the R, make a ¼ turn clockwise and slide 1, 2, 123 towards the couple opposite their own place and house back home. | 8 bars | |
| Right hand star: top couples face L, take R hands with the side couple and slowly wheel clockwise round to place. | 8 bars | |
| 3 | Swing partners, with waltz hold. | 8 bars |
| 4 | Lock and lead around.
Slow square. House. |
32 bars |
| 5 | 1st side couple (L of 1st tops) now lead 2 and side couples face L to wheel. | 24 bars |
| 6 | Swing.
Lock and lead around. Slow square. House. |
40 bars |
| 7 | 2nd top couple now lead 2. | 24 bars |
| 8 | Swing.
Lock and lead around. Slow square. House. |
40 bars |
| 9 | 2nd side couple now lead 2. | 24 bars |
| 10 | Swing.
Lock and lead around. Slow square. House. |
40 bars |
| Second Figure - Balance and Crossover (Jigs) | 328 bars |
| 1 | Lock and lead around.
Slow square. House. |
32 bars |
| 2 | 1st top couple:
Show and square. |
16 bars |
| Balance and crossover:both top couples slide into the centre and back (4 bars), ladies change places R to R (2 bars) and gents change places L to L (2 bars). The whole movement is then repeated back to place. | 16 bars | |
| 3 | Swing.
Lock and lead around. Slow square. House. |
40 bars |
| 4 | 1st side couple now leads 2. | 32 bars |
| 5 | Swing.
Lock and lead around. Slow square. House. |
40 bars |
| 6 | 2nd top couple now leads 2. | 32 bars |
| 7 | Swing.
Lock and lead around. Slow square. House. |
40 bars |
| 8 | 2nd side couple now leads 2. | 32 bars |
| 9 | Swing.
Lock and lead around. Slow square. House. |
40 bars |
| Third Figure - Grand Circle (Jigs) | 328 bars |
| 1 | Lock and lead around.
Slow square. House. |
32 bars |
| 2 | 1st top couple show and square. | 16 bars |
| 3 | Circle: all take hands in a circle and advance and retire twice. | 8 bars |
| Ladies circle: they advance to take hands and retire (4 bars), advance and dance around anti-clockwise to fall back beside the next gent on their R (4 bars). | 8 bars | |
| Gents in: they advance and retire twice. | 8 bars | |
| 4 | Lock and lead around.
Slow square. House. |
32 bars |
| 5 | 1st side couple show and square. | 16 bars |
| 6 | Circle.
Ladies circle. Gents in. |
24 bars |
| 7 | Lock and lead around.
Slow square. House. |
32 bars |
| 8 | 2nd top couple show and square. | 16 bars |
| 9 | Circle.
Ladies circle. Gents in. |
24 bars |
| 10 | Lock and lead around.
Slow square. House. |
32 bars |
| 11 | 2nd side couple show and square. | 16 bars |
| 12 | Circle.
Ladies circle. Gents in. |
24 bars |
| 13 | Lock and lead around.
Slow square. House to finish. |
32 bars |
| Fourth Figure - The Chain (Jigs) | 328 bars |
| 1 | Lock and lead around.
Slow square. House. |
32 bars |
| 2 | 1st top couple show and square. | 16 bars |
| 3 | Slow Chain: all chain RH, LH, ladies clockwise and gents anti-clockwise, to meet partners half way round in 8 bars, stamp once (gent's L and lady's R) and continue round to place in 8 bars. | 16 bars |
| Swing. | 8 bars | |
| 4 | Lock and lead around.
Slow square. House. |
32 bars |
| 5 | 1st side couple show and square. | 16 bars |
| 6 | Slow chain.
Swing. |
24 bars |
| 7 | Lock and lead around.
Slow square. House. |
32 bars |
| 8 | 2nd top couple show and square. | 16 bars |
| 9 | Slow chain.
Swing. |
24 bars |
| 10 | Lock and lead around.
Slow square. House. |
32 bars |
| 11 | 2nd side couple show and square. | 16 bars |
| 12 | Slow chain.
Swing. |
24 bars |
| 13 | Lock and lead around.
Slow square. House. |
32 bars |
| Fifth Figure - The Full Slide (Slides) | 232 bars |
| 1 | Top couples:
House around each other. |
8 bars |
| Slide and change: couples slide 2 steps into the centre of the set and 2 steps back to place (4 bars). They then house across into each other's place (4 bars). The whole movement is then repeated. | 16 bars | |
| House around each other. | 8 bars | |
| Slide and change. | 16 bars | |
| House around each other. | 8 bars | |
| 2 | Side couples now dance 1. | 56 bars |
| 3 | Top couples now repeat 1. | 56 bars |
| 4 | Side couples now repeat 1. | 56 bars |
| Sixth Figure - Circles, Squares and Diamonds (Reels) | 272 bars |
| 1 | Lead around with crossed hand hold in front. | 8 bars |
| Turn the ladies: with their backs to the centre, gents turn the ladies clockwise under L arm 4 full turns. | 8 bars | |
| Swing partners, with waltz hold. | 8 bars | |
| 2 | Top couples:
Four sevens: couples dance hop 1234567 across the set, gents back to back. They make ¼ turn clockwise and dance sevens along that side of the set, make ¼ turn and dance back across the set, gents back to back, ¼ turn and dance into place. |
8 bars |
| House around each other. | 8 bars | |
| Gents cross over to opposite lady, R shoulder to R shoulder, and swing. | 8 bars | |
| Gents dance in and link L elbows in the centre (2 steps), dance 4x3s anti-clockwise and 2 doubled steps to finish beside their own partners. | 8 bars | |
| 3 | Lead around.
Turn the ladies. Swing. |
24 bars |
| 4 | Side couples now dance 2. | 32 bars |
| 5 | Lead around.
Turn the ladies. Swing. |
24 bars |
| 6 | Top couples now repeat 2. | 32 bars |
| 7 | Lead around.
Turn the ladies. Swing. |
24 bars |
| 8 | Side couples now repeat 2. | 32 bars |
| 9 | Lead around.
Turn the ladies. Swing. |
24 bars |
| 10 | Four sevens.
House. |
16 bars |
| STEPS The ‘down’ jig step is used for all jig figures and a flat reel step for the reel. |
| SOURCE "The Piper's Set & other dances" by Terry Moylen, and amended to suit Timmy McCarthy's calling on the Red Abbey Group's cassette "Call The Set" - August 1994. According to Joe O’Donovan there shouldn’t be a ‘lock’ in the Lead around in this set, but both Timmy and William ‘Hammy’ Hamilton, who collaborated in the production of this cassette, seem satisfied that it forms an authentic element of the set - so there you have it! It’s just another example of the ‘folk process’ in action. Incidentally, no-one has yet given me an explanation of how this set came to be named after a well known stage personality of Scandinavian origin. She is also commemorated in the two 'Ginnie Ling' sets described elsewhere in these notes. Any offers? |
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