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Slip jig (Irish: port luascach, port luascadh) refers to both a style within Irish music, and the Irish dance to music in slip-jig time originating from...

often classified into groups, including double jigs (6 8), slip jigs (9 8) and single jigs (12 8). The term jig was probably derived from the French giguer...

jig (Irish: port tribile) is an Irish dance which is done in hard shoes. It is also known as the "heavy jig" (as opposed to the light jig, slip jig,...

jig shoe or heavy shoe) and 'soft shoe' (or light shoe) dances. There are four soft shoe dance styles: the reel, slip jig, light jig and 'single jig'...

cheerful and lively, consisting in Ireland mainly of jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, slip-jigs, and waltzes, with Scotland adding strathspeys, and England...

Master. Such tunes are usually referred to nowadays by the Irish name slip jig. Examples, current in Northumberland, of all these kinds of hornpipe may...

single jigs are in 6 8 time, and are soft shoes dances, while the treble jig is hard shoe, danced in a slow 6 8. The last type of jig is the slip jig, which...

dancing, the reel is one of the four traditional dances, the others being the jig, the strathspey and the waltz, and is also the name of a dance figure. In...

referred to as diddling (generally in England and Scotland), mouth music, jigging, chin music or cheek music, puirt à beul or canntaireachd in Scottish Gaelic...

The commonly competed dances are reel, slip jig, light jig and single jig, in soft shoe, and heavy/treble jig and hornpipe in hard shoe. Treble reels...

hornpipe generally coincide in any given year, and hence slip jig and treble jig coincide. For treble jig, the dancer is required to perform 48 bars; for hornpipe...

eighth notes), and jigs (double and single jigs are in 6 8 time). Jigs come in various other forms for dancing – the slip jig and hop jig are commonly written...

began to be associated with music particularly in 6/8 time, and with slip jigs 9/8 time. In the 17th century the dance was adopted in Ireland and Scotland...

Schottische 3 4 dances Mazurka Waltz 6 8 dances Single and double jigs 9 8 dances Hop and slip jigs 12 8 dances Slide Non-dance tunes Marches and airs which exist...

For example, two character dances, The sailor's hornpipe and the Irish jig gained popularity in music hall and vaudeville productions. Most judges today...

Quadruple-time Barn dance Highland Fling Hornpipe Reel Strathspey Triple-time Waltz Duple compound Jig Two-step Triple compound Slip jig Others Marches...

numbers of strathspeys, jigs and reels. The strathspey step is a slower and more stately version of the skip-change step used for jigs and reels. The strathspey...

the lyrics. Normally, puirt are sung in a 4 4 (reel or strathspey) or 6 8 (jig) metre. Although puirt à beul are traditionally performed by a solo singer...

of Serving Men') at the end. 'Tam Lin' I wrote the tune for, based on a slip jig... 'Reynardine', I'd done with Bert [i.e. A.L. "Bert" Lloyd ]. 'The Deserter'...

number of music genres commonly feature the tin whistle. The Old Grey Goose A jig featuring the tin whistle, performed by Dancing Willow The Foggy Dew Instrumental...