Archives Collection

FRENCH                                       89-101

  MANUSCRIPT DANCE MUSIC BOOKS

 

 

Physical description:

.25 l.f. manuscripts including 2 manuscript volumes.

 

Dates:

[ca.1826] [ca.1835]

 

Provenance:

Purchased from Lisa Cox, Exeter, England, June 1990.

 

Scope and Content:

 

Pantalons. No.1[&c.]. French manuscript. Ca. 1826. 114 pp., oblong 12mo.  Contains 101 contradanses, 1 waltz, 1 schottisch, 1 redowa, 1 polka.

 

La Parise [&c.]. French manuscript.  Ca. 1835.  28 pp., oblong 8vo.  63 contradanses, 15 waltzes, 3 sauteuse, 1 polonaise, 2 mazurkas.  Figures.

 

[Above description from Lisa Cox, Dance Music, 1760-1930, the catalog which accompanied this sale.  This volume is now filed with Center monographs.]

 

Location:

These volumes are filed first by accession number, then in the order listed, with other manuscript sheet music.