12 Jan
2013
12 Jan
'13
9:08 p.m.
On 1/12/2013 12:59 PM, Michael Fuerst wrote:
All the itinerant dancemasters of the 16th and 17th
centuries kept their dances in their heads.
We should strive for the same
What do we know about itinerant dancemasters of the 16th and 17th
centuries? (I'm asking - that's not just rhetorical.) I've come across
stuff about the itinerant dancemasters of the 18th and 19th century.
Asa Willcox - who might have been more of a fiddler sometimes called
upon to call dances rather than a dancing master - kept a book of dance
notes. John Griffith published a book of dances and - one assumes -
tried to sell it to his students.
-- Alan