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T: Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1780
Z: 2011,2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
B: Thomas Skillern "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1780", London 1780
F: http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books/browse-skillerns1780#
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%%center Twenty four
%%center COUNTRY DANCES
%%center for the Year 1780
%%center With proper Directions to each Dance,
%%center as they are performed at
%%center COURT, ALMACKS BATH PANTHEON
%%center and all Public Assemblies
%%center -----------------------------------
%%center London Printed for T.Skillern No.17 St Martins Lane the corner of St Martins Ch: Yard.
%%begintext align
%% Transcription notes:
%% The tune numbers below the clef are used in file names to preserve the dance order.
%% Many 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.
%% The original staff breaks are ignored; the music 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.
%% Dances are transcribed with the original line breaks, which isn't significant.
%%endtext
%%begintext
%% Skillern uses a set of symbols for the musical repeat pattern.  Rotated 1/4 turn left, they are transcribed as follows:
%%   .|.  1st time 1st strain
%%   :|.  2nd time 1st strain
%%   .|:  1st time 2nd strain
%%   :|:  2nd time 2nd strain
%% In the rare case of playing the tune twice, the repeat has two lines in the symbol.
%%endtext