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Caledonian Country Dances — A Collection of the most Celebrated Scotch Country Dances, now in Vogue, with an Introduction & additional Scotch Dances, Proper for the Violin, Hoboy, or German Flute; with its Bass for the Bass Violin or Harpsichord (Walsh, 1748)
Publisher: I. Walsh, at the Harp and Hautboy, in Catherine Street in the Strand, London, 1748. Source: Library of Dance ABBYY TXT (`1748-Walsh-Caledonian_(Arc).txt`), National Library of Scotland / Archive.org scan. Sister publication to Walsh's 1719 Compleat Country Dancing-Master (Book 2) and to the 1740 single-volume Compleat Country Dancing-Master omnibus. The 1748 Caledonian collection consists of ~70 Scotch country dances with figure prose and Playford-lineage longways-for-as-many-as-will format, each accompanied by a violin/hoboy/flute plate and harpsichord bass. Walsh's table of contents lists: Athol Bray, Andrew Kerr, A trip to the Lawndry, Border Reel, Bonny Lass, Black as a Cole, Battle of the Boyn, Bonny Lass take a Man, Bessy Haggice, Butter'd Peas, Blowzabella, Betty Bell, Boscomb Bucks, Country Bumkin, Colliers Daughter, Cork, Dusty Miller, Drown Drowth, Down the Burn Davie, Fairly shot on her, Fiddle Faddle, Gallaway Tom, Hambletons Rant, Huzza, Hay my Nancie, Highland Laddy, Hare in the Corn, Jack on the Green, Lass Trumponey, Let's shak her weall, Lads of Dunce, Lady Terfichens Rant, My ain kind Deary, Mac Fosset's farewell, Muirland Willie, Meillionen, New Pierot, New way of wooing, O'er Boggie, Prince Frederick's Hornpipe, Rising Sun, Ross Meor, Running Footman, Ragg, Ranting Highland Man, Suiters of Selkerke, Scornful Hanoie, Soldier Laddie, Scotch contention, Silly old Man, St James's Basin, Sandy Laddy, Stewards Rant, The Reel of Glames, The Lass of Levengstone, Tunbridge Frisk, Tweed Side, The Berks of Abergelde, The Gun Fleet, The Bonny Boatman, True Joak, The Bumpkin, The Baulk, The Kings Arms, The Lads of Leath, Wap at the Widow, Walley Honey, Willey wilky. A significant subset is already preserved in H-REG-ECD from the Walsh 1740 omnibus attribution; the rest are minted in this 1748 pass. Historical value: documents the mid-century Scotch / Caledonian country-dance corpus circulating in London and Edinburgh salons in the years around the Jacobite 1745-46 rising, captured in the authoritative Walsh imprint lineage.Year: 1748Family: walsh-caledonianCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by I. Walsh, at the Harp and Hautboy, in Catherine Street in the Strand, London, 1748. Source: Library of Dance ABBYY TXT (`1748-Walsh-Caledonian_(Arc).txt`), National Library of Scotland / Archive.org scan. Sister publication to Walsh's 1719 Compleat Country Dancing-Master (Book 2) and to the 1740 single-volume Compleat Country Dancing-Master omnibus. The 1748 Caledonian collection consists of ~70 Scotch country dances with figure prose and Playford-lineage longways-for-as-many-as-will format, each accompanied by a violin/hoboy/flute plate and harpsichord bass. Walsh's table of contents lists: Athol Bray, Andrew Kerr, A trip to the Lawndry, Border Reel, Bonny Lass, Black as a Cole, Battle of the Boyn, Bonny Lass take a Man, Bessy Haggice, Butter'd Peas, Blowzabella, Betty Bell, Boscomb Bucks, Country Bumkin, Colliers Daughter, Cork, Dusty Miller, Drown Drowth, Down the Burn Davie, Fairly shot on her, Fiddle Faddle, Gallaway Tom, Hambletons Rant, Huzza, Hay my Nancie, Highland Laddy, Hare in the Corn, Jack on the Green, Lass Trumponey, Let's shak her weall, Lads of Dunce, Lady Terfichens Rant, My ain kind Deary, Mac Fosset's farewell, Muirland Willie, Meillionen, New Pierot, New way of wooing, O'er Boggie, Prince Frederick's Hornpipe, Rising Sun, Ross Meor, Running Footman, Ragg, Ranting Highland Man, Suiters of Selkerke, Scornful Hanoie, Soldier Laddie, Scotch contention, Silly old Man, St James's Basin, Sandy Laddy, Stewards Rant, The Reel of Glames, The Lass of Levengstone, Tunbridge Frisk, Tweed Side, The Berks of Abergelde, The Gun Fleet, The Bonny Boatman, True Joak, The Bumpkin, The Baulk, The Kings Arms, The Lads of Leath, Wap at the Widow, Walley Honey, Willey wilky. A significant subset is already preserved in H-REG-ECD from the Walsh 1740 omnibus attribution; the rest are minted in this 1748 pass. Historical value: documents the mid-century Scotch / Caledonian country-dance corpus circulating in London and Edinburgh salons in the years around the Jacobite 1745-46 rising, captured in the authoritative Walsh imprint lineage. (1748). Imported from local collection.