DANCES FOR FOUR COUPLES Music is 32 bars per Round, unless stated otherwise in brackets, e.g. (48) after the dance title, and is normally played 4 times through.
Links in green boxes are active and take you to dance instructions.
All non-green links are non-active and don't yet lead anywhere, but like the active links, have TOOL TIPS (hover anywhere in the box) giving such information about the dance as:-- Dance reference number (CW????).
- Formation, if not Longways or Becket.
- Which couples, if any, are improper (-), e.g. (-1, -3).
- Progression. For Longways:- WSP=Whole-Set Progression i.e. 2341; Inv-WSP=Inverse Whole-Set Progression i.e. 4123; 2413; 3142; Ch-ptnr=change-partner.
For Beckets:- < = couples progress left/clockwise (1/4, unless stated otherwise) ; > = couples progress right/anticlockwise (1/4, unless stated otherwise); Ch-ptnr. - Rhythm (if not a reel or jig).
- Number and title of the book containing this dance.
Links in yellow boxes indicate dances already published in a book, the reference number (see Home page) of which is shown in brackets [e.g. "(Bk16")] after the dance title.
Four-Couple Country Dances
1a. Longways with titles, AND with links to instructions ACTIVE.
1b. Longways with titles, BUT links to instructions NON-ACTIVE (so please don't waste time clicking on them).
- All the Ones (36)
- Ambridge Alternatives
- Are You Following Me?
- Avoiding the Inevitable
- The Awkward Ones
- Back to the Equator
- Bison Bangers
- Bluemont Waltz (2x64)
- Blundering Bluebottles (Bk22)
- Boogie Valediction (Bk19)
- Bouncing Bustles (Bk19)
- Boxers at Bolsterstone (Bk18)
- Brimstone and Treacle (Bk15)
- Bumps-A-Daisy
- Bursting the Bubble
- Butterflies' End-Trails
- By the Left
- Calipash and Calipee
- Captain Jack
- Cast Off Your Chains
- The Cat's Cradle
- Central Abandon
- Central Reservation
- Cetacean Creation
- The Chain-Changers
- Chain! Male!
- Chains of Command
- Chance Creek (Bk21)
- Change for a Change
- Chase Me, Charlie
- Chase Me Round the Hay Field
- Columbian Reel (Bk4)
- Come into the Hey
- The Compass (Bk1)
- The Compleat Tangler (Bk13)
- Contracoaxial Reel
- Copycats
- Corkscrew Complications
- Creatures of Habit
- The Crest-Fallen Grebes
- The Crooked Heystack
- The Cross Boss
- Cross-Purposes
- Cutting Corners
- The Dancing Fiddler
- Diagonal Circles
- Diagonal Draws
- The Diamond-Cutter's Dilemma
- Diamonds Aren't Forever
- The Diamond Setting
- The Dolphin and the Butterfly
- Do-Si-Do, Where'd She Go?
- Double Dolphin Detour
- Double the Sausages (for a fuller figure)
- Dreaming Dragons (Bk21) (64)
- Escalator Escapade
- Ever-Changing Odds
- Face-en-Back
- Female Farmers
- Fiddle-Stick Vic (Bk10)
- The First Burn'tt Bridge
- Fleas Irk Us
- Flutterboys (Bk19)
- Flutterphobia
- Follow Your Toes (Bk18)
- Four Early-Bathers
- Four in the Short Draw
- Four's a Crowd
- The Four Musketeers
- Four-Part Harmony
- Fours to be Reckoned With
- A Fundamental Impropriety
- A Furlong Short of a Mile
- Gates and Turnstiles
- Get Back On Your Own Side!
- The Go-Between
- Gymnastic Jim (8x32)
- Gypsy Gyration
- Gyrations Geometrical (48)
- The Harem
- Heavenly Bodies
- He's Always Wandering Off
- Helical Heys
- Here's Looking at You, Sideways
- Hermes or Aphrodite? (8x32)
- He Wouldn't Change Sides With Me!
- Hey, Diddle Diddle (Bk5)
- Hey-Makers' Star
- The Hills of Durham
- The Human Chain
- If It's Good Enough for You… (40) (Bk13)
- Introverts Rule, O.K?
- I Popped One In, and Another Popped Out (Bk13)
- Is It "Down" the Aisle, or "Up"?
- Jack Be Nimble (Bk3)
- Kinaesthetic Undergirding (Bk13)
- A Lady of Leisure
- The Land's End Lady (Bk17)
- The Left-Handed Lepidopterist
- Less Slip Down Than Up
- Like Attracts Like
- The Lily-Livered Lepidopterist
- Maggot Sandwich
- Making-Up the Short-Fall
- Men Take Longer (To Figure-Eight Out)
- The Missing Link (Bk13)
- Mistress, Quickly! (Bk22)
- Moon Assembly
- More Set In My Ways
- Musical Pairs (Bk11)
- My Masterful Mistress (Bk21)
- The Narrow-Minded Libertine
- Neighbourly Negotiations
- The Non-Stick Bucket
- Not Quite Back-To-Back
- Oakwood Bank (Bk2)
- Off the Hook
- On the Crest of a Wave (Bk16)
- On the Sunny Side of the Set
- Our Ficklesome Fancies
- Out of the Haze
- Passed Over, Yet Again
- Pedlar's Reel (26) (Bk22)
- Perpendicular Progress
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- The Pleasures of Portland (Bk16)
- Pothooks and Panloops
- Pretty Maids, Four ina Row (64) (Bk13)
- A Proper Pair
- Quadrigamy
- Quatre Bras (Bk2)
- Quick-Change Artistes
- The Quintessential Quandary (Bk20)
- Radiation Reel
- Red Admirals and Painted Ladies (Bk15)
- Reelly Staggering
- Right Hand, Wrong Gender
- The Right One Will Come
- Ripples in the Hay
- Rising Arches (Bk21)
- Santa's Satnav's in 3-D!
- Sawing Up the Floorboards (Bk20)
- The School Dance
- Seagull Poussettes(Bk16)
- Serpent's Siesta (64) (Bk15)
- Setting: a Good Example
- Shallow Chevrons
- Sharp and Shaw
- The Sharp End
- Short-Chained
- Short Gypsies with Long Arms
- Sidecars and Pillions (Bk19)
- Singing Jenny (Bk11)
- Somerville Ages
- Splitting Your Drawers (Bk18)
- Squaring the Chain
- Standing on the Corner
- Star-Gating
- Stark Waters
- Star-Mazing
- The Stately Assembly (Bk9)
- Successful Extremities
- Swallows in the Barn
- Tandemonium
- This Dog Has Four (Fore-?) Legs (Bk18)
- Time's End (2x64)
- The Tipsy Gipsy (Bk13) (34)
- Tread the Grapes (Bk4)
- Triple-Chain Trail
- Tripsy Gipsy, Dipsy Gipsy
- The Turncoat
- Turnstile Tyranny
- Twin Camshafts
- Two Can Play at That Game
- Two, Four, No More
- Two, Four, Six, Eight
- Uncle Stan's Memorial Conservatory (Bk22)
- Uneasy Lies the Crown
- An Unexpected Ending
- Valentines Un"Veil"ed
- When Your Curly-Whirly's Done
- Winding-Up on the Wrong Side
- Windy City Waltz (Bk20)
- A Woman's Place…
- Women Drivers (Bk5)
- Worm Casts
- The Wrap-Around
- Ye Tak' the Lang Road
- Your Wish Could be My Command
- The Zither Lady
- Total=190
1c. Longways without titles, so links to instructions NON-ACTIVE (again, please don't waste time clicking on them).
2a. Beckets with titles, AND with links to instructions ACTIVE.
2b. Beckets with titles, BUT links to instructions NON-ACTIVE.
2c. Beckets without titles, so links to instructions NON-ACTIVE.
3a. Other Formations with titles, AND with links to instructions ACTIVE.
3b. Other Formations with titles, BUT links to instructions NON-ACTIVE.
3c. Other Formations without titles, so links to instructions NON-ACTIVE.