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T: 24 Country Dances for the Year 1803
Z: 2011 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
B: Tho. Preston eds "Twenty Four Country Dances", London 1803
F: http://archive.org/details/Prestons24CountryDancesForTheYear1805
N: Note that the year is wrong in the source file name.
F:http://john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/DftY/1803/Preston/000_hdr24CD_1805.abc	 2025-01-19 085506 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
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%% 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.  The dots are ignored, and the letters typed as-is.
%% The original staff breaks are ignored, and the music is formatted to have 4 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 have are transcribed with the original line breaks, but this isn't significant.
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