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The Happy Return
Found in PCD2.abc
from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
X: 0921
T: The Happy Return
%R: waltz
Z: 2017 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
B: Skillern & Challoner "A Favorite Collection of Popular Country Dances", London 1809, No. 9 p.2 #1
F: https://archive.org/search.php?query=Country%20Dances
F: https://archive.org/details/SkillernChallonerCountryDances9
N: Double bars introduced between 8-bar phrases, to make the phrasing clearer.
N: It's not clear whether the large ">" symbols are stress or diminuendo symbols.
M: 3/8
L: 1/8
K: Bb
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V: 1 staves=2
[|\
FBd | FBd | Fdf | "_>"f2d |\
.e(ec) | .d(dB) | .c(c/d/c/B/) | AGF ||\
.F(F/B/d) | .F(F/B/d) | Fdf | "_>"f2d |
.e(ec) | .d(dB) | .c(d/c/B/A/) | B3 |]|\
cAF | {G}F=EF | dBF | {G}F=EF |\
(ec).F | (dB).F | .c(c/d/c/B/) | (AG).F ||
"^8va _ _ _"(cA).F |{G}F=EF | dBF | {G}F=EF |\
e2F | d2F | (d=Bc) | (ecA) |[|\
!p!FBd | FBd | Fdf | "_>"f2d |
.e(ec) | .d(dB) | .c(c/d/c/B/) | AGF ||\
.F(F/B/d) | .F(F/B/d) | Fdf | "_>"f2d |\
.e(ec) | .d(dB) | .c(d/c/B/A/) | B3 |]
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V: 2 clef=bass middle=D
[|\
[F3D3B,3] | [F3D3B,3] | [F3-D3-B,3-] | [F2D2B,2]z |\
[F3A,3] | [F3B,3] | [G3E3] | F3 ||\
[F3D3B,3] | [F3D3B,3] | "_dim..."[F3-D3-B,3-] | [F2D2B,2]z |\
[F3A,3] | [F3B,3] |
([E3F,3] | [D2B,2])z |]|\
(F3 | A3 | B3 | d3) | (A3 | B3 | [G3E3] | F3) ||\
FAc | FAc | FBd | FBd | Acf | Bdf | EGc |
Fce |[| "^Harp solo"\
Bdf | Bdf | Bdf | Bdf | Acf | Bdf | EGc | Fce ||\
Bdf | Bdf | Bdf | Bdf | Acf | Bdf | Fc(e | [d3B3]) |]
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