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'''AMERICA.''' English, Country Dance and Minuet. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). A compound tune consisting of a country dance and an accompanying minuet, first published in Henry Playford's '''Apollo's Banquet''', 8th edition (London, 1701) and in John Young's '''Dancing Master''', 14th edition (London, 1709) and in subsequent editions through the 18th (1728). Young was heir to the Playford publishing concern. "America" was also published by Walsh in his '''Compleat Country Dancing Master''' (London, 1718). It can also be found in the 1790 music manuscript copybook of London musician Thomas Hammersley. | |||
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Print sources: Johnson ('''A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter 18th Century'''), 1998; pg. 5. Thompson ('''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances''', vol. 2), 1765; No. 187. | <br> | ||
''Print sources:'' Johnson ('''A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter 18th Century'''), 1998; pg. 5. Thompson ('''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances''', vol. 2), 1765; No. 187. Wright ('''Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances'''), 1740, p. 37. | |||
Revision as of 19:30, 4 July 2012
AMERICA. English, Country Dance and Minuet. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). A compound tune consisting of a country dance and an accompanying minuet, first published in Henry Playford's Apollo's Banquet, 8th edition (London, 1701) and in John Young's Dancing Master, 14th edition (London, 1709) and in subsequent editions through the 18th (1728). Young was heir to the Playford publishing concern. "America" was also published by Walsh in his Compleat Country Dancing Master (London, 1718). It can also be found in the 1790 music manuscript copybook of London musician Thomas Hammersley.
Print sources: Johnson (A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter 18th Century), 1998; pg. 5. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2), 1765; No. 187. Wright (Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances), 1740, p. 37.