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'''VENTO'S FAREWELL'''. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune also appears in the c. 1770 music manuscript collection of William Clark of Lincoln, although may have been entered at a later date by another hand. | '''VENTO'S FAREWELL'''. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title perhaps references Italian composer and harpsichord teacher Mattio Vento (1735-1776), who, in 1763, removed to England where he spent the rest of his life. He was a composer and producer of operas, a director of the King's Theatre, and conducted at public concerts, including those at the Pantheon. | ||
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VENTO'S FAREWELL. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title perhaps references Italian composer and harpsichord teacher Mattio Vento (1735-1776), who, in 1763, removed to England where he spent the rest of his life. He was a composer and producer of operas, a director of the King's Theatre, and conducted at public concerts, including those at the Pantheon.
The tune also appears in the c. 1770 music manuscript collection of William Clark of Lincoln, although may have been entered at a later date by another hand.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), 1788; No. 167, p. 84.
Recorded sources: