Bruce Olson wrote:
>
> Steve Mansfield wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to announce that my latest abc file is now online - a
> > transcription of all 50 of the tunes in the Renaissance dance tutor book
> > Orchesography.
> >
> > Laura and Frank have each made a few of the tunes available on their
> > sites, but this is, I believe, the first time all the melodies have been
> > released in abc format.
> >
> > For those of you unfamiliar with the Orchesography the entire work, a
> >
> > 'Treatise in the form of a dialogue, by which all may easily learn and
> > practise the honourable exercise of dancing'
> >
> > published in France in 1589, is available online through the United
> > States Library of Congress digitisation project at http://memory.loc.gov
> > (browse through the Dance Manuals catalogue, or follow the link I have
> > included in the notes in the abc file). You will, however, have to be
> > able to read French :-)
> >
> > http://www.lesession.demon.co.uk
> >
> > Steve Mansfield
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.lesession.demon.co.uk - abc music notation tutorial and other goodies
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> Wow, a current reprint of "Orchesography", 1589 (by Thoinot Arbeau) is
> $80. My Dover reprint was #2.25.
>
> Bruce Olson
>
> Old English, Irish and, Scots: popular songs, tunes, broadside
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Sorry for the typo; that should have been $2.25. I should have noted
Dover's reprint was of a translation into English.
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