Annotation:Campbell's Allemand

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 CAMPBELL'S ALLEMAND. Scottish (?), Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the c. 1788 music manuscript book of Thomas Molyneaux, of Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Molyneaux, a flute player, was evidently an ensign in the British army at one time. It also appears in print in James Campbell's A Collection of Marches, Quick Steps, Strathspeys, Reels, &c. (Glasgow, 1796).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1782; No. 136, p. 50.  Recorded sources:

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