Collection of New Reels
by Johnson, Abraham
Full title: Collection of New Reels. With a Bass for the Violoncello or Harpsichord. Composed and Humbly Dedicated by Permission to General Sir Hector Munro, Knight of the Bath. By Abraham Johnson. Bass Corrected by Mr. Urbani.
Publisher: Edinburgh: Urbani & Liston
Printer: Urbani & Liston
Date: [1790-1800?]
Notes:
Urbani's corrections mostly amount to making the simple bassline more active and grammatical, but leaving in the occasional consecutive octaves with the tune.
There are some broken chords and Alberti basses with sustained bass note, and some dyads; a few octaves and chords.
One set of variations begins with broken triplet chords under a strathspey ('Coll: Farquharson's Strathspey with Vars. For the Violin', p.8-11), but the collection generally exhibits a fluent expression of the current styles.
RISM: J555
Gore: J2
Biographical info: The colophon suggests that Johnson was London-based, and was active around 1800.
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