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The '''Écossaise''' (in French, "Scottish") is a musical form and a type of contradanse in a Scottish style – a Scottish country dance at least in name – that was popular in France and Great Britain at the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th. Despite the Écossaise mimicking a Scottish country dance, it is actually French in origin.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Scottish Country Dance: A History|last=Emmerson|first=George|publisher=Galt House Publications|year=1997}}</ref> The Ecossaise was usually danced in 2/4 time in two lines, with Men facing the Women. As the dance is executed, couples progress to the head of the line.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Dance|url=https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary0000crai_a8h2|url-access=registration|last=Craine|first=Debra|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2010|location=Oxford, England, UK|pages=Scottish Country Dance}}</ref>
Écossaise compositions were mainly written for solo piano, so that couples could dance to it. The musical form was also adopted by some classical composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven, (WoO 83 and WoO 86 for piano and WoO 22 and WoO 23, now lost, for military band);<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Oeuvres/ListWoO.html|title=Beethoven's music without Opus number - WoO}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://unheardbeethoven.org/search.php?Identifier=woo23|title=The Unheard Beethoven}}</ref> Franz Schubert, (D.145, 158, 299, 421, 511, 529, 643, 697, 734, 735, 781, 782, 783, 816, and 977);<ref>{{cite web|url=https://imslp.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Franz_Schubert|title=Works by Schubert}},</ref> Frédéric Chopin (Op. 72 number 3)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://imslp.org/wiki/3_Ecossaises,_Op.72_No.3_(Chopin,_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric)|title=Chopin Op 72,3}}</ref> and Cécile Chaminade's ''Écossaise,'' Op. 151.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cooper|first=John Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=td5_AQAAQBAJ&dq=chaminade+%C3%89cossaise&pg=PA179|title=Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music|date=2013-10-17|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7484-8|language=en}}</ref>
==References== <references /> * ''New Grove Dictionary'' 2001 p. 870–871 * ''Suzuki Piano School, Volume 2, Revised Edition'' 1995 p.5
==External links== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NyrXlLfBIo Watch Écossaise on the piano on YouTube] * [http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Ecossaises International Music Score Library Project: Ecossaises]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ecossaise}} Category:contra dance Category:dance forms in classical music Category:Scottish country dance
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