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Country Dances Selected with New Figures Adapted, for the Harpsicord, Violin, German Flute or Hoboy, Most Humbly Inscribed to His Majesty's Loyal Subjects. Part I. Price 6s. (John Walsh, Musick-Printer in Catherine-Street in the Strand, London, c.1748)
Publisher: Printed for I. Walsh, Musick-Printer in Catherine-Street in the Strand, London, c. 1748. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1748-Walsh_(Arc).txt (27KB OCR; Glen Collection of Scottish Music / National Library of Scotland copy, presented by Lady Dorothea Ruggles-Brise in memory of her brother Major Lord George Stewart Murray 1927; digitized by the Internet Archive 2011, identifier acompositemusicv01rugg). PUBLISHER-ADVERTISING indicates a 4-volume consolidation: (I) this volume + 'Minuets for his Majesty's Birth Day and 24 Country Dances for the Present Year'; (II) 'Caledonian Dances, being all the Celebrated Scotch and English Country Dances now in Vogue, for the Harpsicord and Violin, in 2 Books. Each 2s 6d' (= LOC-1748-WALSH-CALEDONIAN); (III) 'The Compleat Country Dancing Master, containing upwards of 1200 Old and New Country Dances Bound in 6 Volumes. Each 3s 6d'; (IV) 'Select Minuets by Mr. Handel, Hasse, Wiedeman, Pasquali, Sr. Martini, for yr Harpsichord & Violin, 3 Vol. each 3s 6d'; + (V) Hasse's Comic Tunes to all the Opera and Theatre Dances; + (VI) Apollo's Banquet, a Favourite Collection of Song Tunes for a German Flute and Bass (2 vols.). STRUCTURE: Title-plate + alphabetical Dance index (A-W) + ~34 named dance-pages each consisting of an engraved tune (treble + figured-bass) plus short longways-figure prose description directly under the tune. Each dance 3-8 lines of figure-prose; dances drawn from the contemporary London-Edinburgh stage / assembly / pleasure-garden repertory plus political/topical commemoratives ('Marquifs of Carmarthens Birth Day', 'Saintis Huffars') and Anglo-Scottish imports ('New Hessian Camp', 'Schwabe / Hessian Dance', 'The Parks of Kilburnie', 'Lady Mackentashes Reel'). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: distinct from the Caledonian dedicated-Scottish volume by representing the generic-English + Anglo-Scottish + political-commemorative repertory that occupied the middle of Walsh's 4-volume 1740s country-dance industry. Bridges Walsh 1719 Second Book (LOC-1719-WALSH) and Walsh 1740 Compleat (LOC-1740-WALSH). Has_Step_Detail = Partial — figure-level longways-prose throughout; no step-level foot-position tables (country-dance notation tradition does not include step-detail tables).Year: 1748Family: walsh-part1Catalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Printed for I. Walsh, Musick-Printer in Catherine-Street in the Strand, London, c. 1748. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1748-Walsh_(Arc).txt (27KB OCR; Glen Collection of Scottish Music / National Library of Scotland copy, presented by Lady Dorothea Ruggles-Brise in memory of her brother Major Lord George Stewart Murray 1927; digitized by the Internet Archive 2011, identifier acompositemusicv01rugg). PUBLISHER-ADVERTISING indicates a 4-volume consolidation: (I) this volume + 'Minuets for his Majesty's Birth Day and 24 Country Dances for the Present Year'; (II) 'Caledonian Dances, being all the Celebrated Scotch and English Country Dances now in Vogue, for the Harpsicord and Violin, in 2 Books. Each 2s 6d' (= LOC-1748-WALSH-CALEDONIAN); (III) 'The Compleat Country Dancing Master, containing upwards of 1200 Old and New Country Dances Bound in 6 Volumes. Each 3s 6d'; (IV) 'Select Minuets by Mr. Handel, Hasse, Wiedeman, Pasquali, Sr. Martini, for yr Harpsichord & Violin, 3 Vol. each 3s 6d'; + (V) Hasse's Comic Tunes to all the Opera and Theatre Dances; + (VI) Apollo's Banquet, a Favourite Collection of Song Tunes for a German Flute and Bass (2 vols.). STRUCTURE: Title-plate + alphabetical Dance index (A-W) + ~34 named dance-pages each consisting of an engraved tune (treble + figured-bass) plus short longways-figure prose description directly under the tune. Each dance 3-8 lines of figure-prose; dances drawn from the contemporary London-Edinburgh stage / assembly / pleasure-garden repertory plus political/topical commemoratives ('Marquifs of Carmarthens Birth Day', 'Saintis Huffars') and Anglo-Scottish imports ('New Hessian Camp', 'Schwabe / Hessian Dance', 'The Parks of Kilburnie', 'Lady Mackentashes Reel'). HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: distinct from the Caledonian dedicated-Scottish volume by representing the generic-English + Anglo-Scottish + political-commemorative repertory that occupied the middle of Walsh's 4-volume 1740s country-dance industry. Bridges Walsh 1719 Second Book (LOC-1719-WALSH) and Walsh 1740 Compleat (LOC-1740-WALSH). Has_Step_Detail = Partial — figure-level longways-prose throughout; no step-level foot-position tables (country-dance notation tradition does not include step-detail tables). (1748). Imported from local collection.