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Twenty Four Early American Country Dances, Cotillions & Reels for the Year 1976
by James E. Morrison
New York: The Country Dance & Song Society, 1976
72 pages   EAD-bk: $14.00

With cassette "Young Widow" below: EAD-set: $24.00

See also music book below: Minuets, Cotillions. . . by Marshall Barron

Contains: 23 dances, including country dances, cotillions (square dances), and reels; music with chords; glossary; period quotations about the dance. Avery useful overview of all early American dance types.

CONTENTS: Bonny Lass of Aberdeen, The Conventon, Doubtful Shepherd, Elegance and Simplicity, Four Hand Reel, Innocent Maid, Jockey to the Fair, King George the 3rd’s Minuet, Lady Coventry’s Minuet, Maid of the Oaks, Marlbrouk, Minuet de la Cour, Mr. Turner’s Academy Cotillion, Money in Both Pockets, Pea Straw, Revenge, The Rose Tree, Six Hand Reel, Stony Point, Three Hand Reel, Virginia Reel, Welcome Here Again, White Cockade, Yankee Doodle, York Fusilears, Young Widow.

Young Widow, Tunes from Twenty Four Early American Country Dances
The Playford Consort
Northampton, MA: Country Dance and Song Society, 1990
Cassette:  YW-cs: $11.00

With Twenty Four Early American Country Dances (book, above)  EAD-set $24.00

Played by the Playford Consort, Marshall Barron, Music Director. Instruments include: violin,
soprano recorder, bassoon, and harpsichord.

Companion tape to Morrison, Twenty Four Early American Country Dances, above
Acoustic instruments in period arrangements, music arranged for dancing

CONTENTS: Young Widow, The Convention, Virginia Reel, Stony Point, Doubtful Shepherd, Marlbrouk, Elegance and Simplicity, Three Hand Reel, Money in Both Pockets, Pea Straw, Mr. Turner’s Academy Cotillion, Six Hand Reel

Minuets, Cotillions, and Early American Country Dances
Arranged by Marshall Barron
New Haven, CT: Playford Consort Publications, 1989
48 pages    MC-bk $15.00

Companion book to book and cassette above. Three-part arrangements of most of the tunes in Morrison's Twenty Four Early American Country Dances. Lies flat on music stand.

CONTENTS: Bonny Lass of Aberdeen, Doubtful Shepherd, Elegance and Simplicity, Innocent Maid, Jockey to the Fair, King George the 3rd's Minuet, Lady Coventry's Minuet, Maid of the Oaks, Marlbrouk, Minuet de la Cour, Money in Both Pockets, Mr. Turner's Academy Cotillion, Pea Straw, Revenge, The Rose Tree, Stony Point, Virginia Reel, Welcome Here Again, White Cockade, Yankee Doodle, York Fusilears, Young Widow.