Annotation:Campbell's Allemand: Difference between revisions

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CAMPBELL'S ALLEMAND. Scottish (?), Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the c. 1788 music manuscript book of Thomas Molyneaux, of Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Molyneaux, a flute player, was evidently an ensign in the British army at one time. It also appears in print in James Campbell's A Collection of Marches, Quick Steps, Strathspeys, Reels, &c. (Glasgow, 1796).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1782; No. 136, p. 50.

Recorded sources:

Tune properties and standard notation

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-'''CAMBELL'S ALLEMAND'''. Scottish (?), Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.
+'''CAMPBELL'S ALLEMAND'''. Scottish (?), Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the c. 1788 music manuscript book of Thomas Molyneaux, of Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Molyneaux, a flute player, was evidently an ensign in the British army at one time. It also appears in print in James Campbell's '''A Collection of Marches, Quick Steps, Strathspeys, Reels, &c.''' (Glasgow, 1796).
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