Annotation:True Briton (2) (The)

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X:1 T:True Briton [2], The M:C| L:1/8 B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2 (London, 1765) Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A AcTBA AcTBA|afec BABc|AcTBA AcTBA|BABc fefa:| |:ecaf ecBA|ecaf {f}e2 {d}c2|ecaf ecBA|BABc A4:||

TRUE BRITON [2], THE.AKA - "Trew Britton." English, Reel (cut time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune under this title appears unique in published form to London publisher Charles and Samuel Thompson’s 1765 country dance collection. It was entered twice into the large 1770 music manuscript collection of Northumbrian musician William Vickers.

The True Briton was also at one time the name of a pub in Walmer, Kent^[1]

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection (Northumberland) [Seattle].

Printed sources : - Seattle (Great Northern Tune Book/William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 212. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2), 1765; No. 124.

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↑ Classified by G.A. Tomlin, "Pubs", 1922.

[1] Classified by G.A. Tomlin, "Pubs", 1922.

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