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What a useful list!
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Hey, I just noticed another anomaly in the list.  I noticed the entry for Johnson's 24 Country Dances for the year 1770, went to check it out -- and nowhere the the name Johnson seem to appear in it.  The file name is http://imslp.org/wiki/File:PMLP90894-Longman_24_dances_1770.pdf, and the title page says "Printed for LONGMAN & Co. ...".  I transcribed this collection back in 2010, but didn't record where I found it.  Maybe I should add this URL to the files now.
  
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The very last item (as of now) is a link to PDFs at the VWML for Wright's "Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances". I followed it, and as far as I can tell, there are no PDFs, just images readable online via their own web-based reader app.  I was asked by a local dance leader about one of the tunes/dances in this collection, Unconstand Cloe, which the index lists as #200, the last one on the last page. But the reader only shows me pages up to 99, which contains tune 197 (The Mountebank) and 198 (Zinzans Maggot); the right-arrow (a big ">" symbol) refuses to advance to the next page.  Such a tease!  If there were actual PDFs, maybe I could find it that way, but they don't seem to exist, or are well hidden.
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Anyway, was Johnson somehow associated with this publication? I see that there is an entry under Longman.  Maybe Johnson published a different booklet, and his entry just points to the wrong URL?
  
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Anyway, I thought I mention this, in case someone here knows something that I don't about how to navigate the VWML site, and can add info or a link for how to actually find the PDFs.  Alternatively, the description could be changed to not say "PDFs", though I'm not sure how to concisely describe what the site actually presents to visitors.
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(I tried to submit this as a different comment, but couldn't figure out how to do that, so I just edited my earlier message for the "List ..." page.)
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(Now if I can find a way to contact a knowledgeable human at VWML ... ;-)
 
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Hi John, thanks for spotting that they are not PDFs, I had made an incorrect assumption there. In fact when I poke about it turns out they are simple JPGs, so I have altered the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library entries accordingly, - making another assumption that they are all the same at least! I see that they have made some big changes to the navigation since I last went there, and for me at least I think it's a great improvement. I'm afraid I can't answer for their missing pages, and have no other source. Regards, Chris P.
 

Revision as of 00:34, 8 August 2014

Hey, I just noticed another anomaly in the list. I noticed the entry for Johnson's 24 Country Dances for the year 1770, went to check it out -- and nowhere the the name Johnson seem to appear in it. The file name is http://imslp.org/wiki/File:PMLP90894-Longman_24_dances_1770.pdf, and the title page says "Printed for LONGMAN & Co. ...". I transcribed this collection back in 2010, but didn't record where I found it. Maybe I should add this URL to the files now.

Anyway, was Johnson somehow associated with this publication? I see that there is an entry under Longman. Maybe Johnson published a different booklet, and his entry just points to the wrong URL?

(I tried to submit this as a different comment, but couldn't figure out how to do that, so I just edited my earlier message for the "List ..." page.)

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