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'''RED AND ALL RED.''' English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was originally published by Charles and Samuel Thompson in Thompson’s '''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1''' (London, 1757). The first strain has the usual eight bars, although the second has fourteen. The title may | '''RED AND ALL RED.''' English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was originally published by Charles and Samuel Thompson in Thompson’s '''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1''' (London, 1757). The first strain has the usual eight bars, although the second has fourteen. The title is a phrase that may have been applied to a person, but is a reference to short-horned cattle, whose solid color, “red and all red,” was deemed the most desirable as it signified purebred animals. | ||
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RED AND ALL RED. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was originally published by Charles and Samuel Thompson in Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757). The first strain has the usual eight bars, although the second has fourteen. The title is a phrase that may have been applied to a person, but is a reference to short-horned cattle, whose solid color, “red and all red,” was deemed the most desirable as it signified purebred animals.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 108. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 41.
Recorded sources: