Annotation:Two and Two
X:2 T:Two and Two M:6/8 L:1/8 B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2 (London, 1765) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Gmin GBd dcd|Gce ede|dBG cA^F|DGB A3| GBd dcd|Gce ede|dBG cA^F|GDB, G,3:| |:Bd=f f2 e|Ace e2d|cBA GAB|A^FD D3| Bd=f f2e|Ace e2d|cBA ^FGA|GDB, G,3:||
TWO AND TWO. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air melody with directions for a country dance was published in London by Charles and Samuel Thompson in both their Collection of Twenty-Four Country Dances for 1763 and Compleat Collection of 200 Fashionable Country Dances (vol. II, p. 100, with tunes “Perform’d at Court, Bath, Tunbridge, & all Publick Assemblies”).
Two and Two is also the name of a Scottish Country Dance.
