Annotation:Margate Rout

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MARGATE ROUT. English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Originally published in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773), and later in Straight and Skillern's Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1775). It also was entered into the 1788 music manuscript copybook of fiddlers John and William Pitt Thompson (Norwich, Conn.), as were several of the tunes from the Thompsons' collection.

Margate is a seaside town in north western Kent, famous as a resort for vacationing Londoners for several centuries (see Annotation:Margate Assembly for more.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 83.

Recorded sources:

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