Box and Dice

X: 1
T: Box and Dice
T: Boscomb Bucks
P: Longways for as many as will
%R: reel
B: "Caledonian Country Dances" printed by John Walsh for John Johnson, London
S: 1: CCDTB http://imslp.org/wiki/Caledonian_Country_Dances_with_a_Thorough_Bass_(Various) p.8
S: 3: CCD3  http://javanese.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/6/61/IMSLP173105-PMLP149069-caledoniancountr00ingl.pdf p.14
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: "The first Strain twice, and the last but once."  (Repeats modified to match.)
N: The 2nd part has 14 bars.
M: C|
L: 1/8
K: G
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% Voice 1 has 4 staffs rather than 2, showing the 4/6/4/4-bar phrasing.
V: 1
|:\
B2 A/B/c/A/ BG Gg | dd de B3 d |\
BGAF gfed | ^c/d/e Ac d4 :|
A2 G/A/B/G/ AA2A | B3/c//d// cB B2 A2 |\
GG Gg GG G2 | AA Aa AA A2 |\
cc (c/B/)A Bedc | B2A2 G4 |
^cccc dD DD | cc cB/A/ Bg2g |\
ac cB/A/ Bedc | B2A2 G4 |
B2 A/B/c/A/ BGFG | B2 A/B/c/A/ BGFG |\
Dc cB/A/ Bedc | B2A2 G4 |]
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% Voice 2 preserves the original staff layout.
V: 2 clef=bass middle=d
|: g2d2 G4 | b2g2 g2f2 | g2d2 ed^cB | A2a2 d4 :| d2e2 f2d2 | g2fg d4 | g4 e4 | f4 d4 | e2f2
ec'ba | g2d'2 g4 | g4 f4 | e2f2 g4 | f2d2 gc'ba | g2d'2 g4 | g2d2 G2z2 | g2d2 G2z2 | f2d2 gcBA | G2B2 G4 |]
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• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/JohnWalsh/alltunes/0181

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