--- On Tue, 3/11/09, Francis Wood wrote:
From: Francis Wood
Subject: [NSP] Re: [BULK] Re: [nsp] file - William Darling
To: "Anthony Robb"
Cc: "NSP group"
Date: Tuesday, 3 November, 2009, 10:15 AM
On 3 Nov 2009, at 10:01, Anthony Robb wrote:
Thank you, Francis, for your appreciation.
Dobson played in Mr. Thompson's String Band, as well as with Mr C A Richardson
of Alnwick, whose compositions Dobson copied into his book. We will never know
for sure whether or not Dobson, Darling, Readshaw and Wallace used 'dots' for
performance pur
On 3 Nov 2009, at 10:01, Anthony Robb wrote:
In my 20+ years playing up north I got to at least a couple of
hundred
dances, parties, sessions, music evenings & concerts with a fair few
established players and never saw a page of dots used once
Perhaps they were saying "Look out, its t
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Subject: [NSP] Re: [BULK] Re: [nsp] file - William Darling
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Tuesday, 3 November, 2009, 9:13 AM
Yes, the William Darling is Grace Darling's father. It's a lovely
little manuscript, currently on loan to the RNLI Museum at Bamburgh.
Wi
Yes, the William Darling is Grace Darling's father. It's a lovely little
manuscript, currently on loan to the RNLI Museum at Bamburgh.
William Dobson's manuscript also contains a list of tunes he could play, neatly
divided up according to key signature; he obviously didn't feel the need to
write
And the place!
John
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From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of
Paul Gretton
Sent: 02 November 2009 17:10
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] Re: [BULK] Re: [nsp] file
This is fascinating stuff. Thanks, Margaret.
BTW, could the
