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MACARONI. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Macaroni was 18th century slang for a dandified young gentleman; a preening aristocrat.

The Macaroni Dressing Room

The melody also appears in Straight & Skillern's Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1775) and Longman, Lukey and Broderip's Bride's Favourite Collection of 200 Select Country Dances, Cotillions (London, 1776).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 8.

Recorded sources:

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