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• Dusky Night,The
  This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume ...ng we will go''. However, many printed sources show these words set to the tune above.
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• Goose and Gridiron,The
  This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume [[Category:Tune]]
  1 KB (202 words) - 11:42, 20 March 2009
• Mount Edgcomb
  A possible reason for the name of this dance could be Mount Edgcumbe House, the former home of the Earls of Mount Edgcum [[Category:Dance]]
  365 bytes (55 words) - 15:45, 21 January 2010
• Egg Hornpipe
  ...played by [[Walter Bulwer]] can be heard on [[Rig-a-Jig-Jig|Rig-a-Jig-Jig: Dance Music of the South of England]], [[The Voice of the People]] Volume 9.
  232 bytes (34 words) - 12:14, 14 June 2007
• Le Nouvelle Fantasie (Tune)
  Published in [[John Simpson]]'s [[Minstrel, The|The Minstrel]], this tune seems to have enjoyed a measure of popularity as it subsequently appears in ...e title ''Le Garcon Vola(n)ge'' and as there is [[Le Garcon Volage|another tune with this title]], it likely refers to the Quadrille figure that was danced
  1 KB (207 words) - 21:32, 13 September 2009
• Fisher's Hornpipe
  Popular Hornpipe tune (sometimes played as a reel) in Britain and America. Known by a variety of In recent years the tune has been given a new lease of life by the line dancing fraternity and many
  688 bytes (110 words) - 23:54, 17 January 2010
• Soldier's Joy (dance)
  Source: [[Community Dance Manuals]] - [[CDM7]] '''Music''': [[Soldier's Joy (tune)|Soldier's Joy]]; [[Sheffield Hornpipe]]; or any similar reel
  787 bytes (120 words) - 13:59, 4 March 2009
• Balance the Straw
  Country dance and morris tune, also known as 'Balance A Straw' and 'Balancy Straw'. Used as a morris tune at
  1 KB (154 words) - 07:11, 8 June 2021
• WCL052
  This tune, [[The Retreat]] is a missing link between an earlier version called [[Buf The 'Buff Coat' version features in one of the [[Playford]] published dance books and in Morpeth musician [[Henry Atkinson]]'s manuscript book of 1694,
  1,006 bytes (165 words) - 18:09, 6 May 2007
• Nathaniel Kynaston
  Info from Andrew Kuntz's [https://tunearch.org/wiki/TTA Traditional Tune Archive] ...arber has an index of tunes and PDFs of the following British Library tune/dance books on his [https://nick-barber.net/?page_id=303&fbclid=IwAR0QU0kEYiRTkf-
  2 KB (235 words) - 11:13, 10 June 2023
• Ned Pearson
  Various - Ranting & Reeling. Dance Music Of The North Of England. ‎(CD, Album, Comp) Topic Records TSCD669 1 Various - Troubles They Are But Few. Dance Tunes & Ditties. ‎(CD, Album, Comp) Topic Records TSCD664 1998
  1 KB (176 words) - 13:49, 14 February 2022
• Fantocini,The
  This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume The dance was also known in America and is mentioned on the [http://www.colonialmusic
  1 KB (182 words) - 23:10, 17 January 2010
• Font Whatling
  * The Earl Soham Slog - Step Dance And Country Music From Suffolk ‎(LP) Topic Records 12TS374 1978 ''Untitle ...mp) Topic Records TSCD659 1998 ''Untitled Polka / Golden Slippers / Mick's Tune''
  741 bytes (104 words) - 22:06, 16 February 2022
• Jigs
  ...r, the term Jig refers to the dance rather than the time signature of the tune and there are tunes called '' 'jigs' '' that are in other time signatures i ...eless, for tunes in 6/8, be they for jigs, quadrilles or any other sort of dance.
  850 bytes (134 words) - 06:14, 16 July 2012
• Yorkshire
  ...d it is the home of the English [[longsword]] dance tradition. Traditional dance tunes go back a long way, with important sources such as the 18th century [ ==Tune Manuscripts==
  2 KB (244 words) - 12:56, 26 June 2008
• Polkas
  ...ng with the Waltz and the Quadrille, in sweeping the Country Dance off the dance floors of England and elsewhere. * ''Leeds'' found in ''The South Yorkshire Tune Book'', ''Hardcore English'',
  1,021 bytes (152 words) - 13:28, 1 July 2007
• EDS Vol 43 No 4
  ===DANCE=== ''[[Holly Berry, The-dance|The Holly Berry]], A Christmas dance from Dave Townsend.
  2 KB (244 words) - 09:44, 28 June 2008
• MITTELL,Wm
  The manuscript is referred to as "WM" in tune title catalogue number. with figures to each tune as performed overleaf."
  1 KB (221 words) - 19:41, 23 April 2013
• Snake Chapman
  ...c and could effectively illustrate the delicacies required to make a dance tune come alive.  A small sampling of his abundant repertory can be found o
  531 bytes (87 words) - 12:37, 2 April 2007
• Kitty Fisher
  This tune was published with dance instructions by [[Peter Thompson]] in Thompson's 200 Country Dances Volume
  587 bytes (84 words) - 11:44, 20 March 2009

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