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Country dance directions appear in '''Nancy Shepley's Book''', a small copybook of dance figures compiled by Nancy Shepley of Pepperell, Massachusetts, c. 1794. | Country dance directions appear in '''Nancy Shepley's Book''', a small copybook of dance figures compiled by Nancy Shepley of Pepperell, Massachusetts, c. 1794. | ||
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The tune is in 2/4 time in the London publications from Longman, Lukey & Broderip and the Thompsons. It was converted to 6/8 time in the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Manchester, England, musician [[biography:John Roose]], with the title "Country Assembly"<ref>The title "Country Assembly" is probably a mishearing of "Country Assembly", or a misreading of the handwritten title in the manuscript. </ref> | |||
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|f_printed_sources=Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson ('''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5'''), 1788; p. 2. | |f_printed_sources=Longman, Lukey & Broderip ('''Bride's Favourite Collection of 200 Select Country Dances, Cotillons'''), c. 1776; Part 3, p. 85. Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson ('''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5'''), 1788; p. 2. | ||
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COUNTRY ATTORNEY, THE. English, Country Dance (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Country Attorney was a comic play by Richard Cumberland (1732-1811), staged at London's Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market, July 7th, 1787. Unfortunately, it was not well received and ran only a half-dozen nights. Cumberland reworked much of the same material a few years later for his The School for Widows (1789). He was not regarded in the first rank of playwrights, even by his peers.
Thomas Davis acerbically dismissed him:
Mr. Cumberland is unquestionably a man of very great abilities; it is his misfortune to rate them greatly above their value.
Country dance directions appear in Nancy Shepley's Book, a small copybook of dance figures compiled by Nancy Shepley of Pepperell, Massachusetts, c. 1794.
The tune is in 2/4 time in the London publications from Longman, Lukey & Broderip and the Thompsons. It was converted to 6/8 time in the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Manchester, England, musician biography:John Roose, with the title "Country Assembly"[1]
- ↑ The title "Country Assembly" is probably a mishearing of "Country Assembly", or a misreading of the handwritten title in the manuscript.