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Sheet Music for "Mirth and Jollity"Mirth and JollityBook: Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757)Transcription: Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion



MIRTH AND JOLLITY. AKA and see "Jollity (The)." English, Jig (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody can also be found in the 1788 music manuscript copybook of John and William Pitt Turner (Norwich, Conn.). Country dance directions were given in the 1808 country dance volume entitled A Select Collection of the Newest and Most Favorite Country Dances, published by the Phinney family in Ostego, New York. As "Jollity" the tune was entered into the 1770 music manuscript of Northumbrian musician William Vickers (No. 240).


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Printed sources : - Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 184. Geoff Woolfe (William Winter's Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 62, p. 32.






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