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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).

Location(s):

GB-A
Aberdeen University Library
GB-Bu
Birmingham University Library
GB-Cu
Cambridge University Library
GB-DRu
University Library, Durham
GB-DUcl
Dundee Central Library (Wighton Collection)
GB-En
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
GB-Ep
Edinburgh City Library
GB-Eu
Edinburgh University Library
GB-Gm
Mitchell Library, Glasgow
GB-Grc
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow
GB-Gu
University of Glasgow Library
GB-Lam
Royal Academy of Music, London
GB-Lbl
British Library, London
GB-Lcm
Royal College of Music, London
GB-Lcs
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House, London
GB-Mp
Manchester Public Library
GB-Mr
Manchester University Library
GB-NTu
Newcastle University Library
GB-Ob
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
GB-P
A K Bell Library, Perth
GB-SA
Saint Andrews University Library
GB-SHE
Sheffield University Library
IRL-Dn
National Library of Ireland, Dublin
IRL-Dtc
Trinity College Dublin

GB-DUcl 92494
GB-DUcl 92532
GB-En Glen 98
GB-Gm M8765 / 786.45
GB-Lbl b.53.(1.)

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