This traditional dance celebrates the movement for political and
economic reform in Scotland at the end of the 18th century, which
unlike its predecessors in France and the USA didn’t really lead
anywhere.
The setting movement served as an inspiration for the middle part of
The Reel of the 51st Division
, while the dance as a whole is fairly
typical of the early 19th century, when many dances followed the
»Something-Something-Down-the-middle-and-up-Poussette« pattern.