Trinity Tensome - Jig or Reel?

Angus Henry

Message 62076 · 3 Dec 2011 02:44:36 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

George Meikle's Lothian SDB Index for Dance Band Musicians (a very reliable source for all dancers!) also gives it as a reel.

Angus

On 03-12-2011, at 10:49 , Brian Charlton wrote:

> 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
>> --
>> Anselm Lingnau, Mainz/Mayence, Germany .................
>> xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
>> Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big
>> joke
>> on me. -- Robert
>> Frost
>>
>

Angus & Puka Henry
DARWIN, AUSTRALIA
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