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
ballads at my website (no advs-spam, etc)- www.erols.com/olsonw
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