Don't give credit to devisers

Peter Hastings

Oct. 8, 2001, 2:45 p.m. (Message 27779)

> All descriptions, cribs and ball programmes should 
> ALWAYS mention the deviser for every dance.  

It is _much_ more useful to cite a source from which a copy of the dance can
be obtained. I suspect that few devisors (statistics please, Alan) publish
leaflets and books of only their own dances - most (wild guess) publish the
occasional dance in compilations published by groups and Branches.

Peter Hastings
Royal Observatory
Edinburgh
:)

Alan Paterson

Oct. 8, 2001, 3:01 p.m. (Message 27780, in reply to message 27779)

Peter Hastings wrote:
> 
> > All descriptions, cribs and ball programmes should
> > ALWAYS mention the deviser for every dance.
> 
> It is _much_ more useful to cite a source from which a copy of the dance can
> be obtained. I suspect that few devisors (statistics please, Alan) publish
> leaflets and books of only their own dances - most (wild guess) publish the
> occasional dance in compilations published by groups and Branches.

I have a list of 1643 dance devisers. 187 of these are noted as being 'solo'
producers of publications.

I.e. 11%


Alan