Annotation:Margate Assembly (1)

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MARGATE ASSEMBLY. English, Country Dance Tune, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody also appears in the c. 1786 music manuscript collection of American flute player Henry Beck, who had copied some 16 pages of London publisher Charles and Samuel Thompson's The Compleat Tutor for the German Flute (c, 1765) into his copybook.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), 1788; No. 101, p. 51.

Recorded sources:

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