Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances
by Dow, Daniel
Full title: Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances for the Violin, Harpsichord, or German Flute composed by Daniel Dow
Publisher: Edinburgh: Dow
Printer: For the Author
Date: [1774]
Description:
A small book, beautifully engraved in copper. GB-Lbl catalogue suggests publication was in 1774, which concurs with the Stationers' Hall date.
Notes:
Simple, elegant minuet basslines, reels have repeated four-note lines. Many tunes are given in alternate keys for the flute.
Orientation: landscape
RISM: D3474
Gore: D14-1
Biographical info: Daniel Dow (1732-1783) was born in Perthshire, and lived and worked in Edinburgh from c.1765. He was regularly employed by the Edinburgh Musical Society, and gave concerts in St Mary's Hall. Anecdotally, he was a music teacher who specialised in the guitar. (Glen 1, ix; Baptie; Alburger). One of the GB-A copies of Thirty-seven New Reels notes in ink that [Dow] died of fever January 1783, aged 51 years (burial register of Cannongate, Edinburgh).
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GB-Lbl b.53.(1.)
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