Issue 2293: Lord of the Isles
- Object
- Lord of the Isles (Dance)
- Submitter
- Stephen Webb (SJW)
- Assigned to
- Murrough Landon
- Priority
- Normal
- Disposition
- Being handled
- Description
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What is the evidence that this is a Mary Isdale MacNab Dance Collected or otherwise. I have created what I thought was the definitive list - Reel 313 p14. Best remove it until it can be shown really to be a proper dance. Many thanks,
Previous Actions
- Date Feb. 24, 2021, 3:44 p.m.
- User Stephen Webb (SJW)
New issue submitted
- Date March 2, 2021, 11:46 a.m.
- User Murrough Landon (murrough)
Assigned changed to »murrough« (previously »None«)
Disposition changed to »Being handled« (previously »New«)
As discussed separate by email, I have, for the moment, just added an extra note to the dance linking the doubts raised in this issue. From its 3948 dance ID it was clearly part of the original upload of 7000 dances by Alan Paterson and has a few details (strathspey, for 4 couples in a longwise set) so was presumably not just a rumour of a name.
- Date April 22, 2021, 9 p.m.
- User Murrough Landon (murrough)
Comment received by email from Iain Boyd (in February 2021, but I forgot to add it here at the time).
It is my belief that the majority of the dances collected (and published) by Mrs MacNab were actually devised by Mrs MacNab. The fact that there are copies in her handwriting with an attribution is not proof that they were devised by the person mentioned. Until there is independent proof then we should consider them to be devised by Mrs MacNab. Those square dances with the form of the quadrille MAY be older and MAY have been collected from older dancers.
As a follow up -
If anyone has any independent sources for Mrs MacNab’s collected dances (and not just from her own or other family members’ papers) I would appreciate the source information so that it can followed up on.