Annotation:Red and all Red

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RED AND ALL RED. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was originally published by Charles and Samuel Thompson in Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757). The first strain has the usual eight bars, although the second has fourteen. The title is a phrase that may have been applied to a person, but is a reference to short-horned cattle, whose solid color, “red and all red,” was deemed the most desirable as it signified purebred animals.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 108. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 41.

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