Dancing at the Mill

Nine new Country Dances in the Scottish tradition
devised by Anselm Lingnau

The dances in this book were inspired by people and events around the Proitzer Mühle (Mill of Proitze), a wonderful place to go for Scottish dance workshops and similar events in the north of Germany (between Uelzen and Salzwedel, or Hannover, Hamburg, and Berlin on a large-scale map).

The book contains instructions for the dances and music for their suggested tunes. Most tunes have been specially composed for this book, but some traditional tunes are also included.

The dances are:

1. The Swinmark Sixsome (32-bar reel for six dancers)
2. The Millwater (32-bar strathspey for 4 couples in a straight set)
3. The Road to Proitze (32-bar reel for 4 couples in a straight set)
4. The Gnomes' Stone (32-bar jig for 3 couples in a straight 4-couple set)
5. Dancing at the Mill (32-bar strathspey for 3 couples in a straight 4-couple set)
6. The Silly Sisters (32-bar reel for 3 couples in a straight 4-couple set)
7. The Mill-Ennium Welcome (32-bar jig for two couples facing each other round the room)
8. Off the Ground (32-bar reel for 3 couples in a straight 4-couple set)
9. The Flower of the Mill (128-bar medley for 4 couples in a square set)

You can download the book in PDF format (you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader or a similar program to look at it), or you can contact me for a printed copy, which is available at a reasonable price.

Note: Some people have reported problems with the PDF file using Acrobat Reader on Windows - in some of the tunes, random letters seem to be dropped from the title, composer name and the chord names within the tune. The file works fine with Acrobat Reader 4.0 on Linux (which is what I use), and also with Acrobat Reader 4.05b for Windows 95, which is available from http://www.adobe.com/.

• Download the book (approx. 1 MB)
• Get the tunes in ABC format (approx. 4 KB)