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HARLEQUIN EVERY WHERE. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Mirror: or, Harlequin Every-Where was a 'pantomimical burletta', in three parts, staged at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden in 1779. Music was composed by Charles Dibdin (1745-1814).

Charles Dibdin

Dance directions were entered into the commonplace book of Seabrook, New Hampshire, musician Jeremiah Brown, which contains melodies and figures of country dances, begun c. 1782.



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 5), 1788; p. No. 157, p. 79.

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