Reel

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 608

Reel, a lively dance, popular in Scotland, which may be danced by two couples, but admits a greater number. The music is in general written in common time of four crotchets in a measure, but sometimes in jig time of six quavers.

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