Traditional Set Dances

Set Piece or ‘Long Dance’ – one of about 40 tunes (new tunes are added and others dropped from the list occasionally) composed by dance masters to accommodate footwork. They typically have irregular bar
counts and structures, and are usually written out in Hornpipe or Jig time, but played at a slower pace.

PDF of Set Dances, Speeds, # of Bars in Step & Set

Traditional set speeds are the following:

• The Blackbird — 144
• The Garden of Daisies — 138
• The Hunt — 125
• The Job of Journeywork — 138
• Jockey to the Fair — 92
• King of the Fairies — 124
• Saint Patrick’s Day — 92
• The Three Sea Captains — 92
• The White Blanket — 124

Contemporary Set Dances

Contemporary Set dances are traditional Irish tunes whose Set (second or “B” part) has more than the usual 8 bars—often 12, 14, 15, or 16. Steps (the first or “A” part) may have 8 bars or might also have an unusual number of bars, such as 6 or 15.

Treble Jigs

• The Blackthorn Stick
• The Deep Green Pool
• The Donegal Rambler
• Down the Hill
• The Drunken Gauger (The Funny Tailor)
• Fiddler ’Round the Fairy Tree
• Humours of Bandon
• The Hurling Boys
• Hurry the Jug
• Is the Big Man Within? (Slip Jig/Treble Jig)
• Miss Brown’s Fancy
• The Orange Rogue
• Planxty Drury
• Planxty Hugh O’Donnell
• Planxty Irwin
• Rub the Bag
• The Seafarer
• The Storyteller
• The Wandering Musician

Hornpipes

• Ace & Deuce of Pipering
• The Battle of Arklow
• The Blue Eyed Rascal
• The Bold Deserter
• Bonaparte’s Retreat
• The Cattle Jobber
• The Downfall of Paris
• The Four Masters
• The Galtee Hunt
• Kilkenny Races
• The Little Heather/Heathy Hill
• The Lodge Road
• Madame Bonaparte
• O’Carolan’s Concerto
• The Piper thro’ the Meadow Straying
• Planxty Davis
• The Princess Royal
• The Rambling Rake
• Rodney’s Glory
• The Roving Peddler
• Woods’ Lamentation
• Youghal Harbour

https://www.irish.dance/traditional-sets.

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