strathspey@strathspey.org:45694

Steve Wyrick

Re: FYI: More old dance manuals online and free

June 29, 2006, 7:41 a.m. (Message 45694, in reply to message 45649)

This is a great resource Alex; thanks for posting! -Steve


Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote:

> People were talking about Thomas Wilson books that are kept at the
> strathspey server and I just wanted to point out a newly discovered
> resource of _many_ more of the old dance books.
> 
> The resource is at http://www.archive.org/details/danceman . I could
> not find any scottish country dancing books specifically, but it has a
> great many of English country dance books. For example, it has two
> books by T. Wilson, neither of which seem to be on Anselm's list (at
> least by title)
> http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Authors%3A%20T%3A%20T.%20
> Wilson%20%22
> 
> And there are other interesting books on that server in a different
> section. For example:
> "The Caledonian Tea-Table Miscellany; Choice Songs. at
> http://www.archive.org/details/1808cttm
> 
> And also "Reminiscences of Scottish life and character" at
> http://www.archive.org/details/reminiscencesof00ramsmiss
> This one might even have some explanations of 'outwith'.......
> 
> Regards,
>    Alex.

-- 
Steve Wyrick -- Concord, California