X: 000
T: Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1798
Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
B: Preston & Son, eds "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1798", London 1798
F: http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books/browse-prestons1798#
N: This file doesn't contain the title page, but it's probably similar to the 1796 edition.
K:
%%center Preston's
%%center Twenty four COUNTRY DANCES for the Year 1798
%%center With proper Tunes and 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, to preserve the order of tunes/dances.
%%endtext
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