Ian Brockbank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just received this. Any ideas? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
>> I have desperately been trying to get a copy of 'Charles the twelfth
>> King of Sweden'. Any Ideas?
Is this the dance "The King of Sweden"? I have it in a pamphlet "Four
Step Dances collected in Aberdeenshire for the Royal Scottish Country
Dance Society", ed. Isobel Cramb, music arr. Nan Main & Iain Robertson
(Paterson's Publications, 1953). The dance comes from a manuscript of
1841, the tune ("Charles the Twelfth King of Sweden's March") from the
Gillespie MS of 1768, which I have ABC'ed some tunes from, but not this
one. The booklet includes drawings of leg positions, something ABC is
not very good at.
The introduction says the dances are a sort of fusion of ballet and
Highland dance. Apparently they contain something called "double
trebling" which I always thought was part of a West Indian steel band.
I would suggest asking the RSCDS if they can do you a copy, it'll be
long out of print.
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We don't need that crap. Stop it. Post from somewhere else if that's
what it takes.
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