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X: 1 T:No Song no Supper. Tho24CDs1792.22 M:6/8 Q:3/8=108 L:1/16 C:"94" W: Hands across quite Round .| W: Left hands back again:| W: Promenade 3 Cu: all Round :|. W: 1st & 2d Cu: Pousset :| B:Thompson 24 CDs 1792 Z:Village Music Project, Anne Wride, 2017 F:http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Thompson/Thompson24_1792.abc K:Bb |:B3cB2 F2D2F2|B3cB2 F2D2F2|B2F2B2 d2B2d2|f2g2f2 e2d2c2| B3cB2 F2D2F2|B3cB2 F2D2F2|B2F2B2 d2B2d2|c3Bc2 B6:| |:(d2b2)b2 (c2a2)a2|(B2g2)g2 (A2f2)f2|g2f2e2 d2c2B2|A2c2B2 A2G2F2| (d2b2)b2 (c2a2)a2|(B2g2)g2 (A2f2)f2|g2f2e2 d2c2B2|F2G2A2 B6:|


NO SONG, NO SUPPER. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). England, Yorkshire. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. No Song, No Supper [1] was a comic opera by Stephen Storace, with words by Prince Hoare, printed in London in 1790 by the music publishing firm of Longman & Broderip. Its premiere was at the Drury Lane Theatre in London, on April 16, 1790.

Stephen Storace (1762-1796)
The tune printed by the Thompsons (and entered into the copybooks of Lawrence Leadley and William Winter), however, does not appear in the score for the opera.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - a MS collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].

Printed sources : - Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 46, p. 41. Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson (24 Country Dances for the Year 1792), No. 22. Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 69, p. 34 (ms. originally dated 1850).





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