Awesome! Have been curious about this book for years. Last year some chap at a mandolin forum was talking about going into the National Museum and scanning the thing for our edification - was that you, fynnjamin? Nigel Gatherer was also present at this discussion.
Did the archive.org copy only just now get uploaded? I assume that's what the date stamp "20110616" means. It's also listed as "Klers' violin repository of dance music" for some reason.
Huh, Bob Johnstone's reel is a trad number - was under the impression that Dan R MacDonald composed that one. Also always thought it sounded a bit too much like his Dismal Reel, which J Murdoch Henderson got him to rename the Devil's Delight, as it deserved a more likable title. Maybe the Dismal aspect was its lack of originality?
Jeez, 70 pages of stuff from the National Museum at archive.org. Lots of army/municipal directories, and Ossianic Lays from MacPherson etc. The tune books look to have only been added recently - one title I see is "The Caledonian pocket companion : in six volumes, containing all the favourite Scotch tunes with their variations for the German flute." Would be great if they uploaded Riley's Flute Melodies, published 200 years ago - fascinating book. I scanned the Da Capo reprint myself, but lots of wobbly pages etc.
Came across this site this morning: the Take Six section of the English Folk Dance and Song Society: http://library.efdss.org/archives/ May also be of interest.
It's actually a compilation of periodicals (weekly, I've been told), which possibly explains why it hasn't appeared in print as a 'revision', and only certain libraries hold bound volumes. Perhaps that was discussed already in the mandolin forum.
You can see the different periodicals in the scans - priced at 4d each.
On about the third page of the first volume, did you see the little stamp about the provenance of the book that was scanned for these? Given to collection by a woman in honor of her brother killed in France in 1914.
Kevin - sorry, it wasn't me at the mandolin forum.
Trevor - The reason the link doesn't work is because the last bracket is part of the address and doesn't turn into a link for some reason.
Worth checking out the treasures that NLS have scanned & uploaded onto Archive.org; I've been uploading most of them to IMSLP too.
"On about the third page of the first volume, did you see the little stamp about the provenance of the book that was scanned for these? Given to collection by a woman in honor of her brother killed in France in 1914. "
The woman was the daughter of the Duke of Atholl, her brother being his second son. She bought the Glen collection after it was put up for auction and deposited it on loan to the British Museum, it became one of the collections housed in the National Library of Scotland when it was established.
I'd read about the subscription aspect of KVR, and noticed it only seemed available in libraries in Scotland, according to Worldcat - that, and it's listed in collections in Cape Breton; someone procured a copy for them, somehow. This puts me in mind of Sam Henry's "Songs of the People," a collection published song-by-song in Ulster newspapers, and reprinted in total in the 1990s - making for a pretty hefty book. These approaches are, in a sense, the ancestors of what we're doing here at thesession.org, perhaps - an informal approach to collection of music.
The fact that is listed as an entry in a library makes it fair game for reprint. Do you fellows know how the O'Farrell collections of 200 years ago came to be reprinted? My friend Rick O'Shea (sic) copied them at the NYC Muni library (I think), and sent copies out to interested people like myself. I should ask him how many of us there are...Pat Sky took his copy, cleaned it up, and has been selling bound editions for about 10 years now, basically at cost. Publishing doesn't have to be anything large scale anymore post-desktop revolution.
Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
Köhler's Violin Repository! This fantastic resource is finally freely available. Scanned by National Library of Scotland on archive.org, and also uploaded onto the wonderful IMSLP! http://imslp.org/wiki/K%C3%B6hler%27s_Violin_Repository_of_Dance_Music_(K%C3%B6hler,_Ernest)
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by fynnjamin
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
Awaiting review, it seems. It looks like you are the uploader too, Fynnjamin. Good work.
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by Weejie
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
http://www.archive.org/details/klersviolinrepos01edin
For those who can't wait.
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by Weejie
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
Awesome! Have been curious about this book for years. Last year some chap at a mandolin forum was talking about going into the National Museum and scanning the thing for our edification - was that you, fynnjamin? Nigel Gatherer was also present at this discussion.
Did the archive.org copy only just now get uploaded? I assume that's what the date stamp "20110616" means. It's also listed as "Klers' violin repository of dance music" for some reason.
Huh, Bob Johnstone's reel is a trad number - was under the impression that Dan R MacDonald composed that one. Also always thought it sounded a bit too much like his Dismal Reel, which J Murdoch Henderson got him to rename the Devil's Delight, as it deserved a more likable title. Maybe the Dismal aspect was its lack of originality?
Jeez, 70 pages of stuff from the National Museum at archive.org. Lots of army/municipal directories, and Ossianic Lays from MacPherson etc. The tune books look to have only been added recently - one title I see is "The Caledonian pocket companion : in six volumes, containing all the favourite Scotch tunes with their variations for the German flute." Would be great if they uploaded Riley's Flute Melodies, published 200 years ago - fascinating book. I scanned the Da Capo reprint myself, but lots of wobbly pages etc.
Came across this site this morning: the Take Six section of the English Folk Dance and Song Society: http://library.efdss.org/archives/ May also be of interest.
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by KLR
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
For some reason I couldn't get the IMSLP link provided by Fynnjamin to work, but further investigation showed that all 3 volumes of the collection can be easily downloaded as PDFs using these links:
http://imslp.org/imglnks/usimg/d/db/IMSLP106889-PMLP217734-koehlersviolinrepository_1.pdf
http://imslp.org/imglnks/usimg/9/96/IMSLP106890-PMLP217734-koehlersviolinrepository_2.pdf
http://imslp.org/imglnks/usimg/0/02/IMSLP106891-PMLP217734-koehlersviolinrepository_3.pdf
BTW, the 3 volumes total about 300 pages, and each volume has its own tune index.
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by Trevor Jennings
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
"Have been curious about this book for years."
It's actually a compilation of periodicals (weekly, I've been told), which possibly explains why it hasn't appeared in print as a 'revision', and only certain libraries hold bound volumes. Perhaps that was discussed already in the mandolin forum.
You can see the different periodicals in the scans - priced at 4d each.
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by Weejie
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
On about the third page of the first volume, did you see the little stamp about the provenance of the book that was scanned for these? Given to collection by a woman in honor of her brother killed in France in 1914.
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by full measure
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
Kevin - sorry, it wasn't me at the mandolin forum.
Trevor - The reason the link doesn't work is because the last bracket is part of the address and doesn't turn into a link for some reason.
Worth checking out the treasures that NLS have scanned & uploaded onto Archive.org; I've been uploading most of them to IMSLP too.
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by fynnjamin
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
"On about the third page of the first volume, did you see the little stamp about the provenance of the book that was scanned for these? Given to collection by a woman in honor of her brother killed in France in 1914. "
The woman was the daughter of the Duke of Atholl, her brother being his second son. She bought the Glen collection after it was put up for auction and deposited it on loan to the British Museum, it became one of the collections housed in the National Library of Scotland when it was established.
http://www.heallan.com/glen-biographies.html
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by Weejie
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
That's greatly appreciated, thanks.
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by gam
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
Wow - what a fab resource.
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by Mark Harmer
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
Well done! Thank you.
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by fidkid
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
Weejie, thanks for info on donor's family, and the link. I expect i'll be spending some time with these tunes, i'm surprises how many i recognize.
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by full measure
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
Discussion at Mandolin Cafe: http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?53128-Kohlers-Violin-Repository I'll give them a head's-up later in the day, if someone else doesn't.
I'd read about the subscription aspect of KVR, and noticed it only seemed available in libraries in Scotland, according to Worldcat - that, and it's listed in collections in Cape Breton; someone procured a copy for them, somehow. This puts me in mind of Sam Henry's "Songs of the People," a collection published song-by-song in Ulster newspapers, and reprinted in total in the 1990s - making for a pretty hefty book. These approaches are, in a sense, the ancestors of what we're doing here at thesession.org, perhaps - an informal approach to collection of music.
The fact that is listed as an entry in a library makes it fair game for reprint. Do you fellows know how the O'Farrell collections of 200 years ago came to be reprinted? My friend Rick O'Shea (sic) copied them at the NYC Muni library (I think), and sent copies out to interested people like myself. I should ask him how many of us there are...Pat Sky took his copy, cleaned it up, and has been selling bound editions for about 10 years now, basically at cost. Publishing doesn't have to be anything large scale anymore post-desktop revolution.
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by KLR
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
Discussion of Sam Henry's Songs of the People: http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=7890
# Posted on June 26th 2011 by KLR
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
At the end of the last page of Vol 3 of the IMSLP collection (see my previous post) there are the tantalizing words "to be continued".
# Posted on June 27th 2011 by Trevor Jennings
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
Maybe Caledonia's wail for Neil Gow is an ongoing situation.
# Posted on June 27th 2011 by Weejie
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
now moved (not by me) to: http://imslp.org/wiki/K%C3%B6hler%27s_Violin_Repository_of_Dance_Music_(Anonymous)
# Posted on July 3rd 2011 by fynnjamin
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
again, add the closing bracket at the end of the web address
# Posted on July 3rd 2011 by fynnjamin
Re: Köhler's Violin Repository of Dance Music
http://tinyurl.com/KoehlerRepository (goes to the same place).
# Posted on July 4th 2011 by Jack Campin