X:000
T: 24 Country Dances for the Year 1803
Z: 2011,2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
B: Tho. Preston eds "Twenty Four Country Dances", London 1803
F: http://archive.org/details/Prestons24CountryDancesForTheYear1805
F: http://folkopedia.efdss.org/wiki/File:Preston_24_1803.PDF
N: Note that the year is wrong in the source file name.
N: As of August 2014, tunes/dances 501-504 are still missing.
F:http://john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/DftY/1803/Preston/000_Title.abc	 2025-01-19 090401 UT
K:
%%center Preston's
%%center Twenty four COUNTRY DANCES for the Year 1803
%%center With proper Tunes & Directions to each Dance,
%%center as they are performed at
%%center COURT, BATH, and all PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES
%%center -----------------------------------
%%center London Printed & Sold by Tho. Preston at his Wholesale Warehouses 97 Strand
%%begintext align
%% Transcription notes:
%% The tune numbers below the clef and key signature are used in the file names to preserve the dance order.
%% Many abbreviations use small superscript letters with a dot underneath.
%% Such dots are mostly ignored, and the letters typed as-is, though in unusual cases, the dots are included.
%% The original staff breaks are mostly ignored, and the music is formatted to have 2 or 4 bars per line.
%% The lines are joined into staffs to look good at a small scale, which is useful for proofreading and
%% archiving, but you may want to reformat the staffs for your own needs.
%% The dance descriptions have are transcribed with the original line breaks, but this isn't significant.
%%endtext