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T: the Honest Miller
%R: minuet
B: "The Compleat Country Dancing-Master" printed by John Walsh, London ca. 1740
S: 6: CCDM2 http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Compleat_Country_Dancing-Master_(Various) V.2 #23 (35)
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: Initial and final repeats added to match the dance pattern, which is twice as long as the tune with both strains repeated.
M: 6/4
L: 1/8
F:http://john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/JohnWalsh/Honest_Miller.abc 2025-04-13 111525 UT
K: D
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|: dcde dcBA GFED | dcdB efge dcBA | dcde dcBA GFED | FGAF A,2C2 D4 :|
|: f2d2 f2a2 {g}f2d2 | dcdB efge c4 | A2F2 B2d2 Tc2A2 | fgae fdec d4 :|
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%%begintext align
%% The 1st Cu. takes hands and leads down between the 2d
%% Cu. and foot it and cast up | the 2d C. take hands and
%% lead up between the 1st Cu. foot it and cast down :| Right
%% hand and Left round || hands round all four and the 1st Cu.
%% cast off :|| the 1st cu. hand round and the Man goes behind
%% the 3d Man and his Partner goes round the 2d Wo. | Meet
%% and turn again and the Man goes behind the 2d Wo. and his
%% Partner behind the 3d Man :| the Man foots it with the 2d
%% Wo. and goes behind the 2d Man his Partner footing to the
%% 3d Man and going behind the 3d Wo. || then foot it to
%% your Partner and turn :||
%%endtext
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