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X:1 T:Sword Knot, The M:kC L:1/8 R:Country Dance Tune C:Ignatius Sancho B:Sancho – Minuets Cotillons & Country Dances (1767, pp. 18-19) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G g2 dB cecA|BdBG FA D2|BdgB ceac|BAGF G2 G,2:| |:BdBG cecA|defd d^cBA|fafd gbge|agfe d2D2| g2 dB cecA|BdBG FADc|BdgB ceac|BAGF G2G,2:|]



SWORD KNOT, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was first printed in a small volume called Minuets, Cotillon & Country Dances printed in London in 1767, written by Ignatius Sancho. The title page gives that the volume was "by an African", i.e. Sancho. The tune also appears in Straight and Skillern's Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1775, p. 22) and in Thomas Skillern's Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels...Country Dances (London, 1780, p. 94).

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