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T: Twenty Four Favourite Dances for the Year 1779
Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
B: Thomas Straight "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1779", London 1779
F: http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books/browse-straights1779
N: This booklet sometimes used the following icons in the dance descriptions (rotated 1/4 turn to be typable):
N:   .|.  First  time first  strain.
N:   :|.  Second time first  strain.
N:   .|:  First  time second strain.
N:   :|:  Second time second strain.
N: In many cases, though, the end-of-phrase icons follow no sensible pattern.
K:
%%center 24 Favourite DANCES for the Year 1779
%%center With proper Directions to each Dance,
%%center as they are performed at Court, Bath,
%%center and all Public Assemblies
%%center -----------------------------------
%%center London Printed for T.Straight No.138 St Martins Lane near
%%center Charing Cross.
%%begintext align
%% Transcription notes:
%% The tunes are are unnumbered; their count (01-24)
%% is used in the file name to preserve the publication order.
%% Some abbreviations use small superscript letters with a dot underneath.
%% The dots are mostly ignored, and the letters typed as-is.
%% Some abbreviations end with ":", which is transcribed.
%% Original staff breaks are ignored; the ABC is formatted to have 2 or 4 bars per line,
%% which are joined into staffs to look good at a small scale.
%% Feel free to reformat the staffs for your own use.
%% Dances are transcribed with the original line breaks, which isn't significant.
%%endtext