Hi Chris

I am in the middle of a final year University project transcribing a 18th century country dance book I found in the shaw-Hellier collection at Birmingham University entitled, 'Walsh's complete dancing master volume 6'. It contains 204 country dances if you're interested when the project is complete I could send Sibelius files of some of the tunes at are particular to this volume ( I see you mention joaks on your website one of the lesser known tunes in Walsh's 6th is entitled 'Irish Joak'). The volume appears to be a mixture of new tunes and tunes 'borrowed' from Henry Playford's collections. I would be interested to know if you have noted this 'borrowing' across collections in your research.


Could I also ask if there is a reason that you have not included in the dances attached to each of the tunes in these books.

Does anyone here have any experience of transcribing of these dances, I have looked at Cecil Sharp's the country dance books, and various 18th-century dance manuals and they don't seem to agree with each other.