Room between 1715 and 1720. While apprenticed to Thomas Caverley, Tomlinson began writing a Work Book in 1708 and added to it over a number of years. The manuscript contains copies of existing publications including five dances from a French collection, and a dance by Caverley. The most significant section of the manuscript contains six dances composed by Tomlinson and performed at Lincolns Inn Fields Theater between 1716 and 1721-there are two solos for a woman, two solos for a man, and two dances for a man and a woman. This facsimile edition of the hitherto unpublished manuscript has dance commentary by Jennifer Shennan who is a member of Sonnerie, a New Zealand ensemble performing Baroque music and dance. The manuscript has been identified in a book collection of a family that has included several generations of d ance teachers since migrating to New Zealand from Scotland in the mid-19th century. Two other manuscripts from that family collection are being published in this series.

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