écossaisen.

1806 H. Reeve Jrnl. 18 Jan. in Resid. Vienna & Berlin (1877) 109 Twelve couple stood up at a country dance, called here an ‘Ecossaise’.

1840 Lit. Gaz. 4 Apr. 226/3 The écossaise, and waltz, and sundry quadrilles, gave the company an opportunity of taking part in the amusement

1841 E. C. Gaskell Lett. (1966) 43 A very fashionable waltz step came up while we were at Heidleberg the ecossaise,—and the little girls with their empty milk pails went dancing along the road.

1860 Musical World 8 Sept. 567/1 The ‘Ecossaise’ has not a vestige of Scottish character; but the ‘Polska’ (the name of a Swedish National dance in three-four measure)..is quaint and charming.

1862 St. James's Mag. Apr. 78 In the first ten years of our century, the so long admired Contredanses made way once again for the lively ‘Ecossaises’.

1947 E. Blom tr. O. E. Deutsch Schubert Reader p. xxviii The indigenous dance of the Viennese was the waltz, which had driven back the French minuet and was soon to do the same with the écossaise.

1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) II. 881/2 Authorities differ about the question whether the Écossaise and the Schottisch are..one and the same kind of dance... The modern view is that the dance has nothing to do with Scotland, but was..originally a French dance.

2000 O. Lewin Rock it Come Over 131 Schottische as danced by the Jamaica Festival gold medal group from Buff Bay is in slow triple time which suggests that it must have come to our shores early, taking its speed from the slow polka Schottische and its time from the original Ecossaise.

1863 E. Pauer Programme 27 Apr. 27 A lively dance tune in 2/4 time. In older music the Ecossaise was in 3/4 slow time, and was sometimes used for the Andante.

1924 H. Westerby Hist. Pianoforte Music iii. iii. 102 Weber's early works consist of Variations, Valses and Ecossaises.

1970 Times 25 Feb. 5/3 Schubert: Huttenbrenner Variations, Scherzo in D flat; 2 Impromptus; 4 Ecossaises: Alfred Kitchen (piano).

2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Sept. b3/2 Next came..some French-infused Valses Sentimentales, with a few duple-meter Ecossaises thrown in, all of which Ms. Vavic played with a light touch and a dancing lilt.