‎STEWART, Pete, MARSDEN, Thomas, WRIGHT, Daniel, WALSH, John.‎
‎THREE EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTIONS ‎

‎Pencaitland, Hornpipe Music 2007 4° 21 x 29,7 illustrated light brown paperback brochure IV-119 pp. (1-119) Early 18th century Dance Music for those that play Publick; 252 tunes ; II appendix, bibliography, notes, index to the 145 tunes ; ‎

Reference : 165
ISBN : 0 90 7772 52 8

‎The period between the last decades of the 17th century and the middle of the 18th was a dramatic one for music in England and Scotland. It proved to have a major effect on the repertoire of ‘traditional’ musicians. However, except for the well-known dance collections of the Playford family, very little music has survived from the era either in manuscript or as publications. The three published collections (Thomas Marsden, Daniel Wright and John Walsh) brought together here for the first time in their entirety provide a unique glimpse of these changes. Of particular value is the substantial number of early hornpipes, music which more or less disappeared from the repertoire but which is here in abundance. The book also contains concordances for the published tunes and an extended essay on the English Hornpipe ‎