Annotation:Belle Assembleé (La)
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BELLE ASSEMBLEÉ, LA. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. In addition to the jig's appearance in London publishers Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson's Compleat Collection, vol. 5 (1788), the melody appears in Longman, Lukey, & Broderip's Bride's Favourite Collection of 200 Select Country Dances, Cotillons (London, c. 1776), and Longman and Broderip's Compleat Collection of 200 Favorite Country Dances (London, 1781).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), 1788; No. 172, p. 88.
Recorded sources:
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