X: 000
T: Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1796
Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: As of mid-August 2014, the last four tunes/dances are missing from the VWML version of this collection.
B: Preston & Son, eds "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1796", London 1796
F: http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books/browse-prestons1796# 2014-8-10
K:
%%center Preston's
%%center Twenty four COUNTRY DANCES for the Year 1796
%%center With proper Tunes & Directions to each Dance,
%%center as they are performed at
%%center COURT, BATH, and all PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES
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%%center London, Printed & Sold by Preston & Son, at their Wholesale Warehouses 97 Strand
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%% Transcription notes:
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%% The tune numbers below the clef and key signature are used in the file names to preserve the dance order.
%% Many abbreviations use small superscript letters with a dot underneath.
%% Common terms like "1st", "2d" and "3d" are transcribed without the dots.
%% Uncommon abbreviations includ the ".", to set off the letter(s) printed as a superscript.
%% The original staff breaks are ignored, and the music is formatted to (mostly) have 4 or 8 bars per line.
%% The lines are joined into staffs to look good at a small scale, but you may want to reformat the staffs.
%% The dance descriptions are mostly transcribed with the original line breaks, but this isn't significant.
%%
%%   The file names start with the tune's number.
%% But there are two "283" tunes in the collection, and no "292" tune,
%% so the tunes in that range have been renumbered to make them tunes 284-292.
%%endtext
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