Dancing-master, or, Directions for dancing country dances

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Dancing-master, or, Directions for dancing country dances
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Description	With the tunes to each dance, for the treble-violin. London : Printed by W. Pearson, 1709. 'The fourteenth edition, containing above 350 of the choicest old and new tunes now used at court, and other public places. The whole work revised and done in the new ty’d note, and much more correct than any former edition'. [Includes tunes followed by directions for each dance.]
Shelfmark	Glen.33
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Out of copyright - The physical item used to create this digital version is out of copyright

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1709 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content:	Dance (discipline) Music (discipline)
Person / organisation:	Pearson, William, active 1699-1735 [Printer]
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Glen Collection of printed music
Description	Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject.

Special collections of printed music
Description	The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi.