American dancing master, and ball-room prompter: containing about five hundred dances ... By Elias Howe .. 1859 HALF MOON. Longways triple minor (only) (Music: White Cockade.) First and third couples face each other) (second couple remain in their places) A1: balance, swing around second couple to opposite places A2: same couples balance again, and swing to places B1: couple down the centre, back (cast off) B2: right and left four.