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T:Pas Seul [6]
N:(Danced by) “Miss Jane Forbes”
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B:Archibald Duff – A Choice Selection of Minuets, Favourite Airs, Hornpipes, Waltzs &c.
B:Book First (Edinburgh, c. 1812, pp. 13-14)
B: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105810922
N:Archibald Duff (c. 1770-c. 1840?) was a musician (along with his brother Charles) and dancing N:master, of Montrose and Aberdeen, and is recorded as being a Professor of Music residing at
N:Clayills Cottage, Aberdeen in 1837.
N:The volume is dedicated to Lady Mary Ramsay of Balmain
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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P:Bonney Jean of Aberdeen
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P:Speed the Plough
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P:Duff House
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PAS SEUL [6]. Scottish, Dance Suite (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. "Pas Seul [6]" is a suite of four tunes arranged together for a choreographed solo dance, printed in Montrose and Aberdeen dancing master and musician biography:Archibald Duff. Duff arranged many such "Pas seul's" for his adolescent female students, perhaps soft-shoe ballet-like dances, although now lost, rather than the usual figures of country dances, jigs, reels, etc. "Pas Seul [5]" was for Miss Jane Forbes, mentioned in Duff's title.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Archibald Duff (A Choice Selection of Minuets, Favourite Airs, Hornpipes, Waltzs &c., Book First), Edinburgh, c. 1812; pp. 13-14.
