Talk:List of historical tunebooks, some of which are available on the internet

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.)

Reply: Hi John. Yup, an error. I have removed the entry. As you point out, it is already correctly entered under Longman. There was some interaction at the time between Longman and Johnson but I cannot claim that as the source of my error. If you have ABC files of any of these collections please feel free to add links to them. Regards, Chris.

OK; I've added links to my transcriptions to a few of them. I see that someone already did this for a few others. I'm doing a bit of reorganizing to make get more consistent file names, and I'll add more links as I do that. Also, I noticed that the Longman 1770 "24" set was lacking the dance descriptions, so I spent an hour typing them in and proofreading them. We have an active "historical" dance crowd here in the Boston area, and I know most of the dance leaders (and play for the dances). They've been discovering the online photocopies of the originals, and are starting to use them. They like the ABC transcriptions, because the search sites can find them better than PDFs. But they do complain that the transcribing has been done my musicians who usually ignore the dance descriptions. They also complain that the photos often show the music better than the dance descriptions, which are often partly illegible. Anyway, I've been sending them links to this page (among others), so we might be hearing from some of them. I also wonder if there's a good way to help them make per-dance pages that can include links to the raw images in addition to the cleaned-up versions with modernized notation that they'd all like.