June 23, 2006, 9:23 p.m. (Message 45649)
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.%20Wilson%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.
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