Comet (1) (The)

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Theme code Index	1357 1H527L
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Charles and Samuel Thompson
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 2
Tune and/or Page number	No. 10
Year of publication/Date of MS	1765
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COMET [1], THE. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Originally published in (Thompson's?) Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1758, in December of which year Halley's Comet made one of its 76 year pilgrimages. It was a spectacular success for Edmond Halley, physicist and astronomer Edmond Halley (1656-1742) and for Newtonian physics in general, the system by which Halley calculated (in his 1705 Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets) the periodic appearance and exact year of return of the comet. Halley was also Sir Isaac Newton's friend and publisher.

Printed sources: English Dance and Song, vol. 48, No. 1, Spring, 1986, p. 20. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2), 1765; No. 10.

X:1
T:The Comet [1]
M:6/8
L:1/8
B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2 (London, 1765)
Z:Transcribed and edited by Flynn Titford-Mock, 2007
Z:abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion
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