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 Theme code Index    1311H 137L2
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    England
 Genre/Style    English
 Meter/Rhythm    Country Dance, Jig/Quadrille
 Key/Tonic of    G
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    6/4
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:John Walsh
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Caledonian Country Dances vol. 2
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 340, p. 80
 Year of publication/Date of MS    c. 1737
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    
 Media    
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Merry Harry: Annotations


X:1
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T:Merry Harry
M:6/4
L:1/8
R:Country Dance Tune
B:John Walsh – Caledonian Country Dances vol. II  (c. 1737, No. 340, p. 80)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
G4 d2TB3A B2|g2B2d2 g2d2B2|G4 d2 TB3A G2|
F2A2d2A2F2D2|G4d2 TB3A B2|G2B2d2g2d2b2|
(ef g2) e2 (fga2) |f6 g6::G4 b2 a2f2d2|F4a2 g2e2^c2|d2f2a2 b2g2e2|
Te6 d6|Tc4 B c2 f2a2|B4A2 2d2g2|Tf2e2f2 g2e2B2|TA6 G6:|
X:1
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T:Merry Hary (Harry)
M:6/4
L:1/8
R:Country Dance
B:T. Davis - "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1748" (No. 4)
N:"With a Thorough Bass for the Harpsicord with Figures or 
N:Directions to each Dance: Compos'd for the Entertainment and
N:Diversion of Gentlemen & Ladies that are Lovers of English Dancing." 
N:"NB. Gentlemen and Ladies may depend they are all new and 
N:never danc'd before they were printed. Price 1S."
N: Printed in London for H. Waylett at the black Lyon in Exeter Change 
N:in the Strand. 
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
G4d2TB3AB2|G2B2d2 g2d2B2|G4d2 TB3AG2|F2A2d2 A2F2D2|
G4 d2 TB3AB2|G2B2d2 g2d2B2|(ef)g2 e2 (fg) a2g2|f6 g6:|
|:G4 b2 a2f2d2|f4a2 g2e2^c2|d2f2a2 b2g2e2|Te6 d6|
Tc4B2 c2f2a2|B4A2 B2d2g2|Tf2e2f2 g2d2B2|TA6 G6:||

Merry Harry: Annotations