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X:198 T:Russian Dance [1], The M:2/4 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:A e3 f/d/|cccB|AB/G/ AB/G/|ABcd|e3 f/d/|cccB|AB/G/ AB/G/|A2 A,2:| |:c3 d/B/|AAAB|cagf|e2 d2|c3 d/B/|AAAB|cabg|a2 A2:||



RUSSIAN DANCE [1], THE. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was originally published by Charles and Samuel Thompson in their Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773). It appears, along with numerous other tunes from the Thompsons’ 1773 collection, in the 1788 music manuscript copybook of fiddlers John and William Pitt Turner (Norwich, Conn.).


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Printed sources : - Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 198.






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