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MARGATE ROUT. English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Originally published in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1767 and Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773), and later in Straight and Skillern's Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1775). It also was entered into the 1788 music manuscript copybook of fiddlers John and William Pitt Thompson (Norwich, Conn.), as were several of the tunes from the Thompsons' collection.

Margate is a seaside town in north western Kent, famous as a resort for vacationing Londoners for several centuries (see Annotation:Margate Assembly for more.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thomson (Thompson Twenty Fours Country Dances for the Year 1767), 1767; p. 36. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 83.

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-'''MARGATE ROUT.'''  English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Originally published in Charles and Samuel Thompson's '''Compleat Collection, vol. 3''' (London, 1773), and later in Straight and Skillern's '''Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1''' (London, 1775). It also was entered into the 1788 music manuscript copybook of fiddlers John and William Pitt Thompson (Norwich, Conn.), as were several of the tunes from the Thompsons' collection.
+'''MARGATE ROUT.'''  English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Originally published in Charles and Samuel Thompson's '''Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1767''' and '''Compleat Collection, vol. 3''' (London, 1773), and later in Straight and Skillern's '''Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1''' (London, 1775). It also was entered into the 1788 music manuscript copybook of fiddlers John and William Pitt Thompson (Norwich, Conn.), as were several of the tunes from the Thompsons' collection.
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-''Printed sources'': Thompson ('''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3'''), 1773; No. 83.
+''Printed sources'': Thomson ('''Thompson Twenty Fours Country Dances for the Year 1767'''), 1767; p. 36. Thompson ('''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3'''), 1773; No. 83.
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