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JSS0423	Page 1 of 3 from Sketch 9, Peacock's The Art of Dancing	Page 1 of 3 from Sketch 9 of Peacock's The Art of Dancing. He introduces some useful hints on manners for teachers.
JSS0424	Page 2 of 3 from Sketch 9, Peacock's The Art of Dancing	Page 2 of 3 from Sketch 9 of Peacock's The Art of Dancing. Peacock provides some useful hints on manners from teachers of dancing.
JSS0425	Page 3 of 3 from Sketch 9, Peacock's The Art of Dancing	Page 3 of 3 from Sketch 9, Peacock's The Art of Dancing. Peacock concludes his useful hints on manners for teachers with a discussion of dress.
JSS0426	Page 1 of 2, Letter from James Scott Skinner to Gavin Greig	Page 1 of 2 of a letter from James Scott Skinner to Gavin Greig in the early stages of planning the Harp & Claymore Collection. It reads as follows: Symonds, Mid Street Keith, Friday 11 Jan: 1896 - My dear Gavin Greig, The London Meat Market failure will I fear afect more than Dancing in Keith and now tremendous frost & poor people no work alas, 'tho I have genteel leanings I am if say magnanimous & shall try to have a concert for these people, to grow old gracefully ought to be our motto. I send you the heather King with several snatches of H&C melodies which you can clip up and save writing if arrangements suit. The real Pipe Quicksteps or Marches admit of few changes. 'Champion March' chords of G & A exclusively - you have Melody & Var [Variations] on page 9 - + Melody of 'Piper King', [and] The 'Cameron Highlanders' ought to have a change in the 4th bar Harmony - say a bar in E major to break the monotony + again a little of D in 7th bar. [8 bars of a simple accompaniment figure follow]. Cameron Highlanders does not require change into G haveing no 7th in the melody. - In Strathspeys, I find the single bass note & four crotchets the only thing for effectiveness, to make the feet go - in first strain at least then, an occasional chord in 2nd part - I'm glad youhave kept 'The Miller o' Hirn or old lines, it goes finely - In [illegible] you might give 'The Devil in the Kitchen' [approximately 2 words missing here] bass [paper torn] melody is a wee bit [paper torn].
JSS0427	Page 2 of 2, Letter from James Scott Skinner to Gavin Greig	Page 2 of 2 of a letter from James Scott Skinner to Gavin Greig, in the early stages of compiling the Harp & Claymore Collection. Skinner is discussing arrangements of various melodies. Page 2 reads as follows: In the field of Bannockburn var [variation] I'll leave you [Skinner then gives 2 bars of the melody] and in a second copy also in M.S. [manuscript] you have [he then gives another 2 bars - with a very slight variation to those already given]. The Pipes play A & the Violin B - same effect as the pipers introduce a small note [he hives a third variation with grace notes to imitate pipe music. Written along the margin at this point is:] small notes with little [next 3 words missing] this sounds like a triplet see? [He continues the letter with:] I leave all this to your good taste. I have not got The Melody of Sky Boat Song yet but it is in Logans Inverness Coll: [collection] will send it soon - R.L. Stevensons slip of Words is the very thing if we can get permission from Stevensons brother in Edinburgh. The Words fit the air so very nicely. Shall I send you more music paper & c? - No end of Violinists coming out they will play all these airs - Yes, Cradle Song as you wish. Note Jas: [James} MacKintosh is trying words to it & when you get them you can use or reject as you think fit - We will try & make the H&C [Harp & Claymore Collection] as different from Logie & Hirn [previous Skinner collections] as possible & leave them a chance of selling - No Matter to add now, may reject a few when you are finished with your labours. Dr Macdonald [Keith Norman MacDonald] has 800 tunes ready for a new Vol: or Vols: [The Gesto Collection] so I hear - Keep your eyes on 'Journal' [The People's Journal] & Peoples Friend. Warmest wishes to you all at Whitehill - Ever Yours, J Scott Skinner
JSS0428	Ball-Room Guide, cover	The cover of the tiny pocket manual, Ball-Room Guide, or Dancing Taught without a Master
JSS0429	Title Page, Ball-Room Guide, or Dancing Taught without a Master	Title page of the penny pocket manual, Ball-Room Guide.
JSS0430	Contents, Ball-Room Guide, or Dancing Taught without a Master	Contents page of The Ball-Room Guide or Dancing Taught without a Master. This little pocket manual contains instructions for most of the dances most commonly performed at balls or assemblies in the late 19th century.
JSS0431	Page 1 of 3, Payne's First Set of Quadrilles, The Ball-Room Guide	Page 1 of 3 of Payne's First Set of Quadrilles, as it appears in the Ball-Room Guide, or Dancing Taught without a Master. This guide is intended as a reminder for people who had taken dancing lessons, rather than for those new to dancing. It is interesting to compare this version of Payne's Quadrille with Skinner's (JSS0910, JSS0911, JSS0912).
JSS0432	Page 2 of 3, Payne's First Set of Quadrilles, The Ball-Room Guide	Page 2 of 3 of Payne's First Set of Quadrilles as it appears in the Ball-Room Guide or Dancing Taught without a Master. This guide was intended as a reminder for people who had taken dancing lessong, rather than for those new to dancing. It is interesting to compare this version of Payne's with Skinner's (JSS0910, JSS0911, JSS0912).

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