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Contra Dances from New Hampshire 1783

其他書名	The Clement Weeks Collection
出版	Colonial Music Institute, 2012
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UcOJlAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Contra Dances from New Hampshire 1783 by Kate van Winkle Keller and George A. Fogg (October 2012) is the latest from The Colonial Music Institute press. This book is an interpretation of the fifty-five dances written down by one Clement Weeks, a 33-year-old schoolteacher in Greenland, New Hampshire. In February 1783, just a few months before the Treaty of Paris would end the Revolutionary War, Weeks began writing out "Figures for Contra Dances," thirty-five of them, the authors point out, "from a collection from a friend named Smith" and another twenty chosen by Weeks himself. Keller and Fogg, both expert dance historians, interpreted each set of dance figures and, using the titles in the Weeks manuscript, located the music intended for them. Thus, each dance, is written out in modern notation and coupled with its facsimile from Weeks' manuscript. Facsimiles are provided for most of the tunes as well. That plus the front matter, comprising a history of Weeks and his manuscript and an explanation of "Contra Vs Country," plus the back matter ("Formation," glossary, and bibliography), makes for a book packed with information - and not just for dancers, either"--History of the Ancients website.