Bristol Wells

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Theme code Index	1H2H 65 45 7L2
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance, 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. 1
Tune and/or Page number	No. 98
Year of publication/Date of MS	1757
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BRISTOL WELLS. English, Jig. G major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody (with dance instructions) appeared in two London periodicals in 1755, R. Baldwin's London Magazine, or the Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, and John Hinton's Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure. It also appears in John Johnson's 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 8 (1758). There were hot-springs at Bristol Wells, Gloucestershire, that had a sedative effect and were thought to be curative of a number of illnesses. Resorts sprung up to serve the needs of the fashionable class that frequented them.

Printed source: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 98.

X:98
T:Bristol Wells
M:6/8
L:1/8
B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757)
Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynnian Titford-Mock, 2007
Z:abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion 
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