Album Summary: Niel Gow's Recovery is a small collection of 5 dance tunes published by Gow & Shepherd from their music-shop at No.16, Princes Street, Edinburgh in 1804. The first 2 tunes were "Danced as a Medley at the Queen's Assembly in George Street the 18th. of January 1804", reflecting the fact that the Gow dance-band was the height of posh Edinburgh ball-room fashion at the time. As was the relatively new Germanic style of composition that clearly influences both the harmony and texture of these late-Georgian arrangements. This ScotMus.com album preserves the look 'n' feel of the original scores in a direct facsimile edition.
Image Copyright Release: Given the fact that posterity's lucky to have any copy of these scores at all (see Edition Notes), I don't have any problem with pre-clearing all copyright permissions on the above graphic images — so long as, if you want to use them, you stick in an acknowledgement to ScotMus.com, and/or me (Dr. Steve Sweeney-Turner) as your source, and, if you're using them in a digital thing, you include a link to my frontpage (www.scotmus.com). At this stage in this collection's history, the more copies that survive the ravages of time, the better! :-)
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