Annotation:One More Dance and Then
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ONE MORE DANCE AND THEN. English; March, Country Dance or Polka (2/4 or cut time). A Major (Johnson): G Major (Callaghan). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in print in London publisher John Johnson's Two Hundred Favourite Country Dances, vol. 8 (1758, p. 42). The tune also appears in the Ashover Collection of Harrison & Well, a reprint of a musician's manuscript from the town dating to 1762. At one time the end-of-the-country-dance ("farewell") tune in Ashover, Derbyshire, probably in the 1970's. The first strain is shared with William Ross's pipe reel "Colonel MacLeod's Reel."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 44.
Recorded sources: Topic 12TS382, New Victory Band - "One More Dance and Then" (1978).
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Hear the tune played on melodeon by Lester Bailey [1]