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.

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