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House Dance: Dance Music Played on the Anglo-German concertina by musicians of the house dance era


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Here is the Index. It comes with a "digital booklet" that you read as webpages. Looks like it was originally a CD/ROM that was loaded into a zip file. Photos, info, lots of good stuff!

 

I am definitely looking forward to getting into this! :)


Table of Contents

Part I.  The concertina in the world of the house dance
Chapter 1.  Introduction

Chapter 2.  Old-style octave playing on the Anglo concertina

Chapter 3.  In their own words: playing for house dances

Chapter 4.  Nineteenth century social dances

Chapter 5.  A global music

Chapter 6.  A harvest lost: the banning of house dancing in early twentieth century Ireland

 

Part II.  The musicians: An archive

Chapter 7.  Australia
     Dooley Chapman
     George Bennett
     Con Klippel
     Jim Harrison
     Charlie Ordish
     Fred Holland
     Clem O'Neal
     Susan Colley
     Ernie James
     Percy Yarnold


Chapter 8.  Ireland

Group 1:  Musicians of the house dance repertoire
     Mary Ann Carolan
     Ella Mae O'Dwyer
     Katey Hourican
     Terry Teahan
     Stack Ryan
     Jim Droney
    Martin Howley

 

Group 2:  Musicians of the céilí dance era
     Elizabeth Crotty
     William Mullaly
     Michael Doyle
     Patrick Flanagan
     Tom Barry

 

Chapter 9.  England
     William Kimber
     Scan Tester
     Ellis Marshall
     Fred Kilroy
     Eric Holland
     Bill Link

 

Chapter 10.  South Africa
     Faan Harris
     Chris Chomse
     Kerrie Bornman
     Hans Bodenstein
     Willie Palm
     Pietie Prinsloo
     Silver de Lange

 

Chapter 11.  Modern players in the old style
     Australia: Ian Simpson, Ray Simpson, Keith Klippel, Peter Ellis, Dave de Hugard
     England: Will Duke, Dave Prebble, Harry Scurfield
     Ireland: Sean O'Dwyer
     South Africa: Stephaan van Zyl

 

Chapter 12.  Playing in octaves: a brief tutorial

Chapter 13:  Resources

Discography

 
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2 hours ago, Morgana said:

Here is the Index. It comes with a "digital booklet" that you read as webpages. Looks like it was originally a CD/ROM that was loaded into a zip file. Photos, info, lots of good stuff!

Yes, it was originally a CD-ROM format and I would like to inform you that it has been republished as a book last year.

https://www.amazon.com.au/House-Dance-Anglo-German-concertina-musicians/dp/1953208037

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