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JOHN WALSH (Publisher)

John Walsh and his son, also John, made three series of their Compleat Country Dancing Master. The first series, of two books, commenced in 1718 and was a direct plagiarism of the Playfords Country Dancing Master. Beginning in 1731 they issued a new second series, of four books of three hundred tunes each. In the 1740s they started a third series of six books, reusing many of the old plates in new sequences. He advertised them as a six book set in 1754. (Information from Early American Secular Music and its European Sources) Wm Randall took over the business and advertised them as a seven book set after the middle of the century


Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master, Third Series, Book 1 1754

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Walsh's Complete Country Dancing Master, Third Series, Book 2 1749

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Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master, Third Series, Book 6 1756

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Walsh's Third Book of the Most Celebrated Jiggs, Lancashire Hornpipes 1730

'The Third Book of the most celebrated jiggs, Lancashire hornpipes, Scotch and Highland lilts, Northern frisks, Morris's and Cheshire rounds with hornpipes the bagpipe manner, to which is added the Black Joak, the White Joak, the Brown,, the Red, and the Yellow Joaks. With variety of whims and fancies of diff'rent humour, fitted to the genious of publick performers.'; London, 1730;
Republished as part of Three Extraordinary Collections, Early 18th century dance music for those who play publick; Pete Stewart; Hornpipe Music, Pencaitland, 2007; A review on Mustrad

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