tune page
A Collection of SCOTS REELS or Country Dances For the Year 1769
Found in Bremner_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