TUNE: - Grandpa's jig - a gentle jig with a little swing (Clara GByom) - Winter Blossom (O. MOrrison a gorgeous floaty waltz) - Meredith (Elixir) - Millbrook (slightly melancholy) - "Le Pied De Vent" (Crowfoot - Ten Waltzes) - builds up to an amazing drive. - Genticorum "Kamouraska Waltz" - slightly melancholy, very pretty, moderate tempo. - "New Year's Evie" by Kendall Rogers - has a "Quite Carried Away" kind of quality. (See Google Doc for PDFs). - "Ester's Waltz" combines a sweeping, slightly jazzy, quality with a kind of country feel. - "For a Birthday Present" is swirly, slightly saddish, pretty. - Beautiful Stranger - also country feel, mdoerate to slow, has some depth. Might be too slow. A little bit like Early Frost / Midwinter Blossom, but the ending parses differently. - A Better Last Waltz - happier, briskish, 2-bar phrasing, a little sad it's ending. "Spice" by Todd Silverstein has a nice calypso-esque quality. "Autumn Tapestry" nice old-fashioned quality (hm, 2/2?) On"Promise of Spring". Make a lovely Playford-style dance, or maybe elegant longways. Rebecca Lomincky played "When Will ye Wed me with a Ring?" thoughtful, slightly sprung, piece somewhat like "Air Tune". - "Brown Eyes" by Dave Bartley - beautiful simplicity, calm waltz tune, feels classic. TITLES: The Northern Quoll Toad Sausages Incidental Refreshments Caribou of the Cretaceous Marcher Lords Queen of the Border Lands Foss, Dansant (Edward lear's cat in heraldic blazon) Zooxanthellae (photosynthetic algae that live in coral and give it color) ("A colloquial name for single-cell dinoflagellates.") Narwhal in Daylight IDEA: "AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY HEYS" Sicilian Circle, maybe, using "Trip to the Manor" heys on both axes. Or HeyDaze like multiple heys; maybe including dolphin heys. And what about overlapping heys for four _along_ the set? Not sure if this is for contra or english; maybe both. Idea: "MIRROR HEY FOR FOUR" Ends face middles. Hey: Whenever middles face ends, middles bulge as they go out to ends, ends split middles. When middles face other middles, PASS THROUGH Applications: Longways set of four couples Four-face-four contras Variation: Crossover mirror hey for four: ENDS ALWAYS CROSS (single hey is fine; half hey not so much) ECD: "Crown Prince Wiliam" Longways set of four couples Crossover Mirror Hey for Four Ends cast to middle, middles leading out; new middles circle four repeat to home Falling Star progression (1s and 2s halfway, 1s and 3s halfway, 1s and 4s halfway, partner two-hand-turn half and face hey direction. ------------ 4x4 Contra A1: Short lines F&B; opposites swing, end facing partner A2: (crossover?) mirror hey B1: Partner Balance and swing B2: All 8 circle L halfway, balance the ring, CT. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Promenade Hey for Four Cuddle up with partner; stay connected and dance as a unit Middles face ends; pass left on the ends, right in the middle. ------------------------------------------------------------ TITLES ------- Painting the World TUne that needs something Saddle Old Paint (like "Indian Point", a little) FIGURE: In longways duple formation, slip jig or waltz time *might* be four bars each, duple meter 8 bars or fit a slightly shorter tune. First corners cross through the inside of the set and go around standing partner 3/4 by the left shoulder, then up and down through the middle to finish in corner's place. (Kind of an inside-out Barbarini track.) Second corners the same through partner's original place, right shoulder around standing person in that spot.