tune page
Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1805
Found in alltunes.abc
from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
The abc for this tune contains background information but no music.
X: 000 T: Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1805 Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> B: Thompson & Son, "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1805", London 1805 F: http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books/browse-thompsons1805# K: % %begintext align % % Transcription notes: % % The tunes aren't numbered, but the pages are, so files names are of the form PPN_Title.abc, where % % PP is the page number and N is the tune/dance number on the page (1 or 2). % % Many abbreviations use small superscript letters with a dot underneath. % % Common terms like "1st", "2d" and "3d" are transcribed without the dots. % % Uncommon abbreviations include the ".", to set off the letter(s) printed as a superscript. % % Some abbreviations are indicated by a ":", e.g. "Gent:" for Gentleman; these are transcribed as-is. % % 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. % %endtext