Thompson's "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1805"

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The tunes in this booklet aren't numbered, but the pages  are,  so  the  file
names  are of the form PPN_Title, where PP is the 2-digit page number (1-12),
and N is the tune number on the page (1, 2).  Initial  articles  are  omitted
from  the  Title in file names, and the first significant word is capitalized
in both the file name and the T: line inside the file.  The alltunes.abc file
contains all the transcribed tunes in the same order as in the booklet.

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This collection has the dance  descriptions  in  "plain  English",  with  few
abbreviations  and  none  of  the end-of-phrase icons used in many other such
dance descriptions of the time.  This means that dance leaders will  have  to
figure  out how a dance fits with its tune, and how the tune's strains should
be repeated.  But this isn't very different from other such publications.

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The transcriptions mostly have the tunes in 2- or 4-bar lines, with "\"  used
to  combine  them  into  longer  lines suitable for a small-font PDF file for
proofreading.  You'll want to  rearrange  them  to  fit  the  needs  of  your
musicians, especially if you have visual limitations to accommodate. Starting
each staff line at a phrase boundary is convenient  for  musicians,  but  not
otherwise musically meaningful.  The original has a narrow format, with a few
tunes with 4-bar lines, and others arranged to  fit  the  narrow  width  with
little concern for phrasing..

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