Traditional Dancing in Scotland

1964, 1st printing. (4to) Very good in very good dust jacket. 313pp. Musical notation, notes, diagrams, illustrations, notes, references, index. The spine is lightly cocked, there is minor soiling to the bottom edges of the covers, the dust jacket is price-clipped and the endpapers are toned. "Weddings, kirns, ceilidhs, hiring fairs - these were some of the occasions on which Scots danced before 1914. In the larger towns dancing-masters' schools flourished, and in the countryside peripatetic dancing-masters made their annual circuits. In remote crofting districts the young people gathered during the long winter nights in fiddlers' or pipers' houses, where they danced Reel after Reel after Reel". Locale: Nova Scotia--Canada; Scotland. (Dance, Dancing, Social History, Tradition).