Scottish country dance videos may help, as in many cases there is no caller, and 40-bar/80-beat dances are much more common than in contra. For example, here's Mairi's Wedding, a forty-bar reel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpLfLurI5s Or search for Type: Reel or Jig; Bars: 40; Video: checked on http://my.strathspey.org/dd/search/dance/. Two provisos - SCDs usually run only eight times through and the music goes rather more slowly than contra (108-16 vs 120-130 bpm). Yours faithfully, Edmund Croft, Cambridge, UK. Jonathan King wrote: > I'm looking for an online tune for practicing calling "Major Hey" - it has > five sixteen-beat parts (80 beats). I'm looking for just an instrumental > version of some 80 beat tune, no calling, no singing.
