Trinity Tensome - Jig or Reel?

Brian Charlton

Message 62075 · 3 Dec 2011 02:19:15 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

Hello,

It is hardly surprising that Napier's Index and the information in
DanceData coincide, as it was a main source when Alan Paterson compiled it.
I also note that Keith Napier gives no details as to the formations in the
dance, thus he probably did not have a copy of the dance when he added it
to his index. By the way, he still updates the index and it is available as
an Excel file from him.

Brian Charlton,
Sydney, Australia

On 2 December 2011 21:07, Anselm Lingnau <xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:

> I wrote:
>
> > I'm going to have to go up to the attic to find my copy of Napier's Index
> > and see what that says.
>
> I managed to avoid the trip to the dusty place by locating the Napier's
> Index
> floppy disk image (for the 4th edition plus additions, from December 1995),
> and it says
>
> Trinity Tensome 40 R 400
>
> Source 400 is »Miscellaneous dances, author unknown«.
>
> I guess we can by now pretty much take it as established – in the absence
> of
> hard evidence to the contrary – that the dance is, in fact, a reel.
>
> Anselm
> --
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> Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big
> joke
> on me. -- Robert
> Frost
>