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