Annotation:Harlequin Neptune

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HARLEQUIN NEPTUNE. English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. In addition to the printing by London publishers Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson in their Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1781, the tune appeared in Longman, Lukey & Broderip's Bride's Favorite Collection of Two Hundred Select Country Dances (London, 1775, p. 89).

King of the Genii; or, Harlequin Neptune was a pantomime entertainment, "in grotesque characters."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), 1788; No. 178, p. 87.

Recorded sources:

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