Four Musketeers

Tradition: Fieldtown

Music: Rambling Sailor (mp3)

Set: 4 dancers

Props: Sticks

Stepping: Double

Figures: Standard Fieldtown, each followed by a Chorus

• Foot Up & Down

• Tack Over

• Back to Back

• Rounds

Chorus:

• Sticking

• Half Hey

• Sticking

• Half Hey

Sticking:

There are two patterns for the sticking, each of which is used by two dancers and which occur simultaneously:

• (1st Corners): H-L-H-L / H-L / H-H

• (2nd Corners): L-H-L-H / H-L / H-H

In the first pattern:

• The 1st Corners (1 and 4) begin by clashing diagonally with each other: High, Low, High, Low.

• Then they turn to face the dancers who is Up/Down set from them (for 1, that’s 3; for 4, that’s 2) and clash High, Low.

• Finally, they turn to the dancer who is Across from them (for 1, that’s 2, for 4, that’s 3) and clash High, High.

In the second pattern:

• The 2nd Corners (2 and 3) begin by clashing diagonally with each other: Low, High, Low, High.

• Then they turn to face the dancers who is Up/Down set from them (for 2, that’s 4; for 3, that’s 1) and clash High, Low.

• Finally, they turn to the dancer who is Across from them (for 2, that’s 1, for 3, that’s 4) and clash High, High.

Notes:

• Since there are no Middle dancers, the Half Heys must be done short.

• FINISH: Final Half Hey at the end of the dance ends with a Caper Out.