Annotation:Revenge

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REVENGE. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 or 4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune dates to ca. 1790 and was possibly associated with The Revenge, a burlesque burletta after the fashion of Midas, written by Chatterton, and performed in London at Maryleborne Gardens in 1770. Morrison also prints a country dance of the same name to the tune.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Johnson (A Further Collection of Dances, Marches, Minuetts and Duetts of the Latter 18th Century), 1998; p. 4. Morrison (Twenty-Four Early American Country Dances, Cotillions & Reels, for the Year 1976), 1976; p. 37.

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