Historical SourcePublic Domain
The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer, Vol. XIX, for the Year 1750 (R. Baldwin Jr., London 1750)
Publisher: R. Baldwin, jun. at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row, London 1750. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1750-London-Magazine_(Goog).txt (20136-line ABBYY OCR of the bound annual volume, Google-Books scan). STRUCTURE: A general-interest monthly magazine in its 19th year of publication, each issue containing news, parliamentary essays, poetical essays, and (relevant here) ONE engraved country-dance per month - a tune (treble) plus 3-7 lines of figure-prose directly beneath. The 12 country dances of the 1750 annual volume are: Tom Jones (January, p.41), Ranger's Wedding (February, p.88), Don Jumpedo (March, p.136), Trip to Richmond (April, p.184), The Fumbler (May, p.232), The Drum (June, p.278; figure-body OCR non-recoverable from this Google scan), The Rival Mimicks (July, p.316), The Coquet (August, p.373), Trip to Teddington (September, p.421), The Tar's Triumph or Bawdy-House Riot (October, p.470), The Highwayman (November, p.516), and Trip to Clapham (December, p.564; title-only, figure-body OCR non-recoverable). Each dance is a longways-for-as-many-as-will set in the Playford-Walsh-Bray-Watts lineage, with named figures: cast off, set, turn right hands single, lead down the middle, back to back, hey contrary sides, cross over and half figure, right and left, whole figure at top, hands four round at top, lead through, gallop down the middle. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: documents the periodical-magazine channel for English country-dance dissemination in the mid-18c - distinct from the Walsh / Bray / Watts / Johnson dance-publisher imprints (LOC-1740-WALSH, LOC-1748-WALSH-PART1, LOC-1748-DAVIS, LOC-1750-JOHNSON). The London Magazine country-dance series ran monthly from 1731-1755+ and represents one of the earliest subscription-magazine vehicles for new country-dance publication, anticipating the Universal Magazine series and the Thompson 24 Country Dances annual series of 1771+ (LOC-1771-THOMPSON-24). ROSETTA-STONE VALUE: 12 named country-dance titles, of which 10 have figure-prose extractable from the OCR (Tom Jones, Ranger's Wedding, Don Jumpedo, Trip to Richmond, The Fumbler, The Rival Mimicks, The Coquet, Trip to Teddington, The Tar's Triumph, The Highwayman). All 12 are minted as new H-REG-ECD canonicals (date-precedent Walsh-1740 + Merry-1753 genre assignment). The 2 title-only entries (The Drum, Trip to Clapham) are minted with Has_Step_Detail tracked at appearance level; figure-bodies deferred for future targeted-OCR. Has_Step_Detail = Partial - figure-level longways prose extractable for 10 of 12 dances; no step-level foot-position tables (consistent with mid-18c English country-dance notation convention).Year: 1750Family: london-magazineCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by R. Baldwin, jun. at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row, London 1750. Source: DATA/LIBRARY_OF_DANCE/ABBYY TXT/1750-London-Magazine_(Goog).txt (20136-line ABBYY OCR of the bound annual volume, Google-Books scan). STRUCTURE: A general-interest monthly magazine in its 19th year of publication, each issue containing news, parliamentary essays, poetical essays, and (relevant here) ONE engraved country-dance per month - a tune (treble) plus 3-7 lines of figure-prose directly beneath. The 12 country dances of the 1750 annual volume are: Tom Jones (January, p.41), Ranger's Wedding (February, p.88), Don Jumpedo (March, p.136), Trip to Richmond (April, p.184), The Fumbler (May, p.232), The Drum (June, p.278; figure-body OCR non-recoverable from this Google scan), The Rival Mimicks (July, p.316), The Coquet (August, p.373), Trip to Teddington (September, p.421), The Tar's Triumph or Bawdy-House Riot (October, p.470), The Highwayman (November, p.516), and Trip to Clapham (December, p.564; title-only, figure-body OCR non-recoverable). Each dance is a longways-for-as-many-as-will set in the Playford-Walsh-Bray-Watts lineage, with named figures: cast off, set, turn right hands single, lead down the middle, back to back, hey contrary sides, cross over and half figure, right and left, whole figure at top, hands four round at top, lead through, gallop down the middle. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: documents the periodical-magazine channel for English country-dance dissemination in the mid-18c - distinct from the Walsh / Bray / Watts / Johnson dance-publisher imprints (LOC-1740-WALSH, LOC-1748-WALSH-PART1, LOC-1748-DAVIS, LOC-1750-JOHNSON). The London Magazine country-dance series ran monthly from 1731-1755+ and represents one of the earliest subscription-magazine vehicles for new country-dance publication, anticipating the Universal Magazine series and the Thompson 24 Country Dances annual series of 1771+ (LOC-1771-THOMPSON-24). ROSETTA-STONE VALUE: 12 named country-dance titles, of which 10 have figure-prose extractable from the OCR (Tom Jones, Ranger's Wedding, Don Jumpedo, Trip to Richmond, The Fumbler, The Rival Mimicks, The Coquet, Trip to Teddington, The Tar's Triumph, The Highwayman). All 12 are minted as new H-REG-ECD canonicals (date-precedent Walsh-1740 + Merry-1753 genre assignment). The 2 title-only entries (The Drum, Trip to Clapham) are minted with Has_Step_Detail tracked at appearance level; figure-bodies deferred for future targeted-OCR. Has_Step_Detail = Partial - figure-level longways prose extractable for 10 of 12 dances; no step-level foot-position tables (consistent with mid-18c English country-dance notation convention). (1750). Imported from local collection.