Links to music pages in some dance instruction manuals and dance collections reproduced on the American Memory site: 19th century
Page posted on 18 August 2007.
Main pages and search links:
It can be difficult to locate pages containing music in the volumes on this site, and it can be awkward maneuvering inside larger collections. Word searches on the bibliographical information pages seem to be reliable (search for "music"), and the Subject search page includes several entries for "Dance Music." Within individual documents, however, the page search window ("Turn to. . .") normally applies only to paginated leaves in the original. Pages appended to a volume and containing graphics of various kinds, including music, thus, can be easily missed. (In a few manuals, the page search window has apparently been programmed incorrectly, as well). When the page search is not functioning, one can move around within a file using the "recNum" value in the link. For example, the last page in volume 1 (of 3) in the anonymous collection "Plaisirs de l'Arquebuse" is http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=musdi&fileName=096//musdi096.db&recNum=403&itemLink=r?ammem/musdibib:@field(NUMBER+@od1(musdi+096))&linkText=0," where recNum=403. For the last page of music (end of volume 3) the url is identical, except that recNum=685.
On a separate page I have provided links for some seventeenth and eighteenth-century manuals: Early dancelinks. Here I have begun work on links for nineteenth-century manuals.This is a work in progress; I hope to cover all the manuals on the LOC site eventually.
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