The Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master, Containing Great Variety of Dances both Old and New, Particularly those Perform'd at the several Masquerades; together with All the Choicest and most Noted Country-Dances Perform'd at Court and Publick Balls, with their proper Tunes and Figures (or Directions) to each Dance — fitted to the Violin, or Hautboy, and most of 'em within the Compass of the Flute (Walsh, London 1719)

Dance manual/reference by Printed by H. Meere, for J. Walsh, Servant in Ordinary to His Majesty, at the Harp and Hautboy in Catherine-Street in the Strand, and J. Hare at the Viol and Flute in Cornhill, London, 1719. Price bound 3s. Source: Library of Dance ABBYY-OCR'd Gale ECCO-TCP scan (1719-Walsh-Complete_(Gale).pdf + ABBYY TXT 1719-Walsh-Complete_(Gale).txt, 1513 lines, 165KB). Walsh's most-comprehensive country-dance volume of the early Hanoverian era — the SECOND BOOK in the series whose first book competed with John Young's continuation of the Playford 'Dancing Master' tradition. PUBLISHED IN BEAUCHAMP-FEUILLET CHARACTER ('printed in the London Country Character … sufficient to any other of the common sort'), establishing notation-based country-dance publication as the new standard. The volume contains over 200 longways country-dances spanning the post-Marlborough's-Wars repertory: politico-historical commemoratives (Blenheim Pound, Ramillies Rout, Donauwört, Burgundy's Flight, Dunkirk, Duke of Anjou's Flight); Hanoverian-succession themes (Elector of Hanover's March, Queen Anne's Coronation Day); Marlborough-themed (Duke of Marlborough's March, Marlborough's Victory, Marlborough House, Churchill's March); contemporary-stage commemoratives (Beaux Stratagem, Recruiting Officer, Confederacy, Rinaldo, Belvedera); London-civic themes (Newgate, Billingsgate, Buckingham House, Burlington House, Marlborough House, Whitehall, Dorinda's Tea-Table, Mohocks); rural/domestic themes (Brook and Hester, Damon's Delight, Old Hob, Sally in our Alley, Peace and Plenty); composer-named 'maggots' (Eccles's Maggot, Coppinger's Maggot, Captain Corbet's Maggot, Pate's Maggot, Patrick's Maggot, Norah's Maggot, Blundell's Maggot, Damon's Delight); and step-form hybrids (New Minuet, Lady Lee's Courant, Rigadoon Royal, hornpipes, jigs). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: Walsh as PUBLISHER (rather than as composer-dancing-master) was the dominant figure in the post-Playford English country-dance industry; this Second Book represents the consolidation of the early-18c repertory into Beauchamp-Feuillet character notation, completing the transition (begun by Weaver 1706 for Isaac's ball-dances) from Playford-style longways notation to choreographic notation. Bridges LOC-1670-PLAYFORD / LOC-1698-PLAYFORD (Playford-tradition) and LOC-1709-ISAAC / LOC-1706-WEAVER-ISAAC (Beauchamp-Feuillet ball-dances), establishing the early-Hanoverian English country-dance canon. (1719). Imported from local collection.