Annotation:Margate Assembly (1)

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MARGATE ASSEMBLY. English, Country Dance Tune, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody also appears in the c. 1786 music manuscript collection of American flute player Henry Beck, who had copied some 16 pages of London publisher Charles & Samuel Thompson's The Compleat Tutor for the German Flute (c, 1765) into his copybook. The tune and dance also appeared in Longman, Lukey & Broderip's Bride's Favorite Collection of Two Hundred Select Country Dances (London, c. 1775), Longman & Broderip's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1791, and Preston & Son's Preston's Twenty four Country Dances for the Year 1792.

The latter 18th dancing season at the spa-town of Margate commenced on the King’s birthday, formally celebrated in June, and ended in late October. According to George Saville Carey's The Balnea: or, an Impartial Description of the Popular Watering Places in England (1799), Margate’s assembly room was “spacious, and a good object, standing in the centre of the town” (7).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), 1788; No. 101, p. 51.

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