Annotation:Portsmouth Rout

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PORTSMOUTH ROUT. English, Jig. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears to be unique to London publisher Charles and Samuel Thompson’s Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1763 (p. 62), later reprinted in their 1765 country dance anthology.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2), 1765; No. 125.

Recorded sources:

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