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X:1 % T:Round About, The M:C| L:1/8 B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D d2 (AG) F2 d2|fedc dcBA|d2 (AG) F2d2|A2c2 d4:| |:a2 (gf) g2 (fe)|f2 ed e2 cA|a2 gf g2 fe|fagf {f}e4| d2 AG F2d2|fedc dcBA|d2 AG F2 d2|afge d4:||

ROUND ABOUT, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is unique to Charles and Samuel Thompson’s Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773).

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Printed sources : - Tbompson (Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1772), London, 1772; p. 85. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 146.

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