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Comical 18th-century country dance; engraving by Hogarth. A country dance is any of a very large number of social dances of a type that originated in England in the British Isles; it is the repeated execution of a predefined sequence of figures, carefully designed to fit a fixed length of music, performed by a group of people, usually in couples, in one or more sets.
Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary includes printable Dance Instruction Cribs alphabetically ordered. DanceData web interface, database of Scottish country dances: more than 12,000 entries and information on music and recordings. Minicrib is a database of nearly 4000 dances which enables cribsheets to be printed out.
The other is considered a cowboy-style of Jitterbug or swing dance, also referred to as the Lake Charles Slide, the Cowboy Jitterbug and the Whiskey River Jitterbug. Cajun Two Step is a style of Cajun dancing, also with two variations, and is arguably the most traditional. It is very similar to the country western two-step.
The country/western two-step, often called the Texas two-step [2] or simply the two-step, [3] is a country/western dance usually danced to country music in common time. "Traditional [Texas] two-step developed, my theory goes, because it is suited to fiddle and guitar music played two-four time with a firm beat [found in country music].
Western couple dancing is a form of social dance.Many different dances are done to country-western music. These dances include: Two Step, Waltz, Cowboy or Traveling Cha Cha, [2] Polka Ten Step [3] (also known as Ten Step Polka [4]), Schottische, and other Western promenade dances, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, and Nightclub Two Step.
The Dancing Master: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project, scans of the first to tenth editions (1651-1698), and the 14th edition (1704); Playford's Dancing Master: The Compleat Dance Guide "An exhaustive collection, catalogue, and index of all dances published in editions of the Dancing Master, 1651-1728", Scott Pfitzinger, CC-BY-NC-SA.
Here’s the official song list for the ‘CMA Country Christmas’ special. The Country Music Association released a full song list for the hourlong special.
The Dashing White Sergeant is a Scottish country dance, performed to a similarly titled piece of music. The dance is in 4/4 time, thus it is in the form of a reel. The dance is performed by groups of six dancers and is progressive. [1]