Historical SourcePublic Domain
Wall — Country-Dance Tunes & Figures Manuscript (1762)
Publisher: Anonymous attribution to a 'Wall' MS, 1762; Archive.org scan reference. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1762-Wall-Tunes_(Arc).txt (114-line OCR; mostly handwritten/calligraphic tune+figure recto-verso — only fragmentary words decipherable through ABBYY OCR: 'Holland Reel', 'Holland Round', 'Compares', 'Coupiers', 'Country dances', 'Dances', 'Hands round', 'Right and Left', 'Cast off' type fragments). HISTORIC POSITION: mid-18c British/American MS country-dance & tunes commonplace-book, contemporary with Walsh annual collections (1748-DUKES, 1752-DUKES) and just-pre-Thompson-1771-onward annual run; bracket-year for the printed-source explosion of 1760s English country-dance publishing. Has_Step_Detail = No: handwritten ms; ABBYY OCR illegible at the per-figure level. Corpus-completeness syllabus row only — no canonicals or appearances minted in this pass. Future re-OCR with Adobe-OCR or manual transcription is the recommended next step for this MS.Year: 1762Family: wall-msCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Anonymous attribution to a 'Wall' MS, 1762; Archive.org scan reference. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1762-Wall-Tunes_(Arc).txt (114-line OCR; mostly handwritten/calligraphic tune+figure recto-verso — only fragmentary words decipherable through ABBYY OCR: 'Holland Reel', 'Holland Round', 'Compares', 'Coupiers', 'Country dances', 'Dances', 'Hands round', 'Right and Left', 'Cast off' type fragments). HISTORIC POSITION: mid-18c British/American MS country-dance & tunes commonplace-book, contemporary with Walsh annual collections (1748-DUKES, 1752-DUKES) and just-pre-Thompson-1771-onward annual run; bracket-year for the printed-source explosion of 1760s English country-dance publishing. Has_Step_Detail = No: handwritten ms; ABBYY OCR illegible at the per-figure level. Corpus-completeness syllabus row only — no canonicals or appearances minted in this pass. Future re-OCR with Adobe-OCR or manual transcription is the recommended next step for this MS. (1762). Imported from local collection.