The Playford files have been all over the web for ages, and I've never heard of anybody claiming copyrights for them. As far as I understand, this was originally two or more independent projects that gradually merged. I don't know if it was ever finished.
I think the project's main home on the web is: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~sca/src/contributed/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/dance/playford.html (this is a single URL, remove the line shift) I think the easiest place to find the tunes themselves are: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5567/playford.txt This seems to be an outdated version, but should include most of the important stuff. You may also find some information about it at Eric Praetzel's site: http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/~praetzel/ although his Playford transcriptions may be an independent project. More Playford: The Cynnabar Baronny (don't remember the URL at the moment) used to have an online edition without the actual music (only the dance instructions and other text) in HTML and PDF formats. I think they've removed it, but not before I managed to get my filthy hands on the files ;-) E mail me in private if you want a copy (but don't tell anybody, and don't post it anywhere). Finally: You definitely should have a look at the site named "The Dancing Master, 1651-1728" at: http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/ This site includes facsimiles of *all* the dances from *all* editions of "The Dancing Master", not just the 1651 edition the others seems based on. ------- Anselm Lingnau wrote: > > A lot of Playford stuff is available from the US Library of Congress > (they have a special page on the history of dancing, the URL of which > escapes me right now) It's: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
