Annotation:Adventure in Margate (An)

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 ADVENTURE AT MARGATE, AN. English, Jig. C Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The melody appears in T. Skillern’s Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels…Country Dances (London, 1780). The title perhaps comes from the play Summer Amusement, or an Adventure at Margate written by Miles Peter Andrews (1742-1814) in conjunction with William Augustus Miles, performed in 1779 in the Haymarket. Andrews was a playwright, gunpowder manufacturer and a Member of Parliament (1796-1814) from Bewdley. Source for notated version: Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; pg. 2. Recorded sources: Brass Monkey – “Sound and Rumour” (1999).

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