Edit the tune: Conquest (The)

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<p><font face="sans-serif" size="4"> '''CONQUEST, THE'''. English, Country Dance Tune. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The dance was originally published in '''Bride's Favourite Collection of 200 Select Country Dances, Cotillons''', published by Longman, Lukey & Broderip in London in 1776. It subsequently appeared in Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson's '''Twenty Four Country Dances''' (London, 1781) and Thompson's '''Compleat Collection''', vol. 5 (London, 1788). Country dance instructions for "The Conquest" (but not the tune) appear in '''A Select Collection of the Newest and Most Favorite Country Dances''', published by H. and E. Phinney in Ostego, N.Y., in 1808, and in '''A Treatise on Dancing''' by 'Saltator' (a pseudonym) in Boston, 1809. <br> <br> ''Source for notated version'': the music manuscript of Captain George Bush (1753-1797), a fiddler and officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution [Keller]. <br> <br> ''Printed source:'' Keller ('''Fiddle Tunes from the American Revolution'''), 1992; p. 15. Thompson ('''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5'''), 1788; No. 181, p. 91. </font></p> ---- <pre> X:1 T:Conquest, The M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Country Dance B:Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson -- Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (1788, No. 181, p. 91) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D dd d/c/B/A/|dd d/c/B/A/|ff f/d/c/d/|gffe| ee a/^g/f/e/|d/c/B/A/ eE|f/^g/a/f/ Be|cA A2:| |:d/e/d/e/ fd|g/f/e/d/ f/e/d/c/|d/e/d/e/ g/f/e/d/|b/a/g/f/ e2| f/d/B/d/ g/e/c/e/|a/f/d/b/ a2|b/a/g/f/ e/f/g/a/|fd d2:|] </pre> ----

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