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'''NOW OR NEVER.''' English, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in Northumbrian musician William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection [http://www.asaplive.com/Archive/detail.asp?id=R0302206] (p. 22). This duple-time country dance tune and steps were published in Charles and Samuel Thompson's '''Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. 3''' (Lodnon, c. 1772-73), Straight and Skillern's '''Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1''' (London, 1775), and Thompson's '''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 4''' (London, 1788). | '''NOW OR NEVER [1].''' English, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in Northumbrian musician William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection [http://www.asaplive.com/Archive/detail.asp?id=R0302206] (p. 22). This duple-time country dance tune and steps were published in Charles and Samuel Thompson's '''Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. 3''' (Lodnon, c. 1772-73), Straight and Skillern's '''Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1''' (London, 1775), and Thompson's '''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 4''' (London, 1788). | ||
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NOW OR NEVER [1]. English, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in Northumbrian musician William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection [1] (p. 22). This duple-time country dance tune and steps were published in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. 3 (Lodnon, c. 1772-73), Straight and Skillern's Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1775), and Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 4 (London, 1788).
A different tune of the same name, a jig, was printed by John Johnson in his Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 4 (London, 1748),
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Straight and Skillern (Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), c. 1775; No. 110, p. 55. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 80, p. 35.
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