Annotation:Red and all Red

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RED AND ALL RED. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was originally published by Charles and Samuel Thompson in Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757). The first strain has the usual eight bars, although the second has fourteen. The title is a phrase that may have been applied to a person, but is also a reference to short-horned cattle, whose solid color, “red and all red,” was deemed the most desirable as it signified purebred animals. The tune and dance (reconstructed by Charles Bolton, Colin Hume and others) are popular today with English Country Dance groups.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 108. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 41.

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