Annotation:Now or Never (1)

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NOW OR NEVER. English, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in Northumbrian musician William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection [1] (p. 22). This duple-time country dance tune and steps were published in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. 3 (Lodnon, c. 1772-73), Straight and Skillern's Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1775), and Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 4 (London, 1788).

A different tune of the same name, a jig, was printed by John Johnson in his Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 4 (London, 1748),

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 80, p. 35.

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