Croydon Frisk

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Theme code Index	1131 2242
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/4
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Charles and Samuel Thompson
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 3
Tune and/or Page number	No. 67
Year of publication/Date of MS	1773
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CROYDON FRISK. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Croydon is now a district of South London. Originally published in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1767, and reprinted in their third country dance collection (London, 1773). It was entered (as were several tunes from the Thompson's 1773 collection) in the 1788 music manuscript copybook of fiddlers John and William Pitt Turner (Norwich, Conn.).

Printed source: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 67.

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T:Croydon Frisk
M:2/4
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B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773)
Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynnian Titford-Mock, 2007
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