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Theme code Index	1H2H67 4231
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance, Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Charles and Samuel Thompson
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 4
Tune and/or Page number	p. 46
Year of publication/Date of MS	1780
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COMICAL FELLOW, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning. AABB (Johnson, Raven): AAAABB (Barnes). The tune first appears in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 4 (London, 1780), and soon after was published by Longman and Broderip's in their Compleat Collection of 200 Favorite Country Dances (London, 1781). American manuscript versions can be found in the collections of Jeremiah Brown (1782, Seabrook, N.H.) and Luther Kingsley (1795, Mansfield, Conn.), and it was published in 1805 in Joshua Cushing's Fifer's Companion (Salem, Mass.).

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Johnson (Twenty-Eight Country Dances as Done at the New Boston Fair), vol. 8, 1988; p. 3. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 31. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 4), 1780; p. 46.

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