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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.

A scene in Tartarus (the Greek Hell)

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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