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Issue 2576: other/earlier source - one dance-leaflet

Object
A Birl Roond Forfar (Dance)
Submitter
Wanda van Taanom (taanom_421)
Assigned to
Viktor Lehmann
Priority
Normal
Disposition
Needs help
Description

This dance was – probably earlier, before being in a book – published as a one dance A5 leaflet. On p.1 the title and dedication as in extra info. Also the text: “The dance depicts a walk through the streets of Forfar to climb up Bummie (Balmashanner Hill) and then down past where the witches were caught and burned, returning to the Cross and past the old jute weaving mills on the way round the Loch.” on p2. The scores for the recommended tunes (Inchmacoble (not Inchnacoble as in DB) and Canmore Reel) and on p.3 the description. p.4 is blanc.

Here I also want to mention a inconsistency i.m.o. in the way one-dance-leaflets are entered into the DB. Some are mentioned under ‘published in’: name xxx(1). f.i. The Aad Boode dances Reel of the Gordon Highlanders and Reel of the Transvaal Scottish. Others only have it mentioned under extra info. (f.i. Carlingwark Jig) And that is especially strange if there is no other published source (f.i. Stanley Reel) or if as source(s) are only mentioned several Pilling editions. (f.i. XXXXX), or nothing at all (Miss Jeannie Carmichael (also item 2514) and SCD Kaleidoscope). There must be more leaflets treated in different ways like these… Broadswords of Lochiel, Huntly Reel and Jacobian Sword Dance (macNab’s) are -out of my head – also published as one-dance-leaflets.

Please let me know what is ‘the rule’. gr. Wanda

Previous Actions

  • Date  July 29, 2021, 11:14 p.m.
  • User  Wanda van Taanom (taanom_421)

New issue submitted

  • Date  Dec. 21, 2022, 11:25 p.m.
  • User  Viktor Lehmann (tone2tone)

Assigned changed to »tone2tone« (previously »None«)
Disposition changed to »Needs help« (previously »New«)

I have corrected the tune name “Inchmacoble”.
A valid question is how to deal with one-dance-leaflets. Technically, they qualify as “publication” sometimes, yet the work alone to set up a separate publication of the same name… would only make sense IMHO if the leaflet shows more than the DANCE, e.g. the score of a tune… Any references how this was dealt with in the past?

  • Date  Dec. 22, 2022, 12:13 p.m.
  • User  Murrough Landon (murrough)

If a single dance was published in a leaflet by itself and there were paper copies available then I think it makes sense to add it as a publication (with or without a tune). Maybe as a general guideline rather than a strict rule?

Perhaps this was not always done in the past. Possibly because the editing team did not have copies to look at. In that case a note in extra info may have been added as a stop gap. Or if a set of single leaflets were republished as a book it may be easier just to reference the existence of the earlier leaflets in a note. At least in the first instance.

  • Date  Dec. 22, 2022, 11:37 p.m.
  • User  Viktor Lehmann (tone2tone)

I don’t know. This poses further problems - I mean WHEN do we talk about a “publication” that has seen paper? How professionally would they have to be printed to qualify? All my dances are “published” on single leaflets on the German Branch website, if you wish so, and paper copies exist :-) but I feel no need to add a “publication” to it, just an online source. I do understand that in former times even leaflets had to be explicitely published with quite some effort to make them available, as there was no other way to spread them, but nowadays I feel a shift of what “publication” means.