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A Collection of SCOTS REELS or Country Dances For the Year 1769
Found in SRCD.abc
from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
The abc for this tune contains background information but no music.
X: 0 T: A Collection of SCOTS REELS or Country Dances For the Year 1769 Z: 2016 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> B: Name "A Collection of SCOTS REELS or Country Dances", London 1769 F: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=104993891 %N: This booklet sometimes used the following icons in the dance descriptions (rotated 1/4 turn to be typable): %N: .|. First strain first time. %N: .|: First strain second time. %N: :|. Second strain first time. %N: :|: Second strain second time. %N: In many cases, though, the end-of-phrase icons follow no sensible pattern. K: % %begintext align % % Transcription notes: % % The tunes are are unnumbered; their count (01-24) % % is used in the file name to preserve the publication order. % % Some 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. % % Original staff breaks are ignored; the ABC is formatted to have 2 or 4 bars per line, % % which are joined into staffs to look good at a small scale. % % Dances are transcribed using %%begintext, with one line per figure, which isn't significant. % %endtext