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Theme code Index
153H5H 2H662
Also known as
Downie's Humour
Composer/Core Source
Region
England
Genre/Style
English
Meter/Rhythm
Country Dance
Key/Tonic of
D
Accidental
2 sharps
Mode
Ionian (Major)
Time signature
2/4
History
Structure
ABB
Editor/Compiler
Biography:Richard Baldwin
Book/Manuscript title
Book:London Magazine: Or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
Tune and/or Page number
p. 293
Year of publication/Date of MS
1755
Artist
Title of recording
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
Media
Score 1 )
X:1
T:Downie's Humour
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Country Dance
B:Baldwin -- London Magazine; Or, Gentlemen's Monthly Intelligencer (1755, p. 293)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:D
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Sheet Music for "Downie's Humour" Downie's Humour Country Dance Book: Baldwin -- London Magazine; Or, Gentlemen's Monthly Intelligencer (1755, p. 293) Transcription: AK/Fiddler's Companion
X:1
T:Downie’s Humour
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Country Dance Tune
B:Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (January, 1756, p. 271)
B:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081663381&view=1up&seq=37
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
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Sheet Music for "Downie’s Humour" Downie’s Humour Country Dance Tune Book: Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (January, 1756, p. 271) Transcription: AK/Fiddler’s Companion
X:1
T:Downies' Humour
M:2/4
L:1/8
B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country
B:Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757)
Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007
Z:abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:D
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Sheet Music for "Downies' Humour" Downies' Humour Book: Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757) Transcription: Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007 abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion
