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T: Apollo's Banquet
O: Playford 1687
Z: 2017 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
B: Henry Playford "Apollo's Banquet", London 1687 (5th Edition)
F: https://archive.org/details/apollosbanquetco01rugg
N: From the John Glen collection, via Lady Dorothea Ruggles-Brise
F:http://roaringjelly.org/~jc/music/book/Playford/AB/0000_Title.abc	 2024-11-24 040228 UT
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%%center Apollo's Banquet:
%%center CONTAINING
%%center Instructions, and Variety of New Tunes, Ayres,
%%center Jiggs, and several New Scotch Tunes
%%center FOR THE
%%center TREBLE-VIOLIN
%%center TO WHICH IS ADDED
%%center The Tunes of the newest French Dances, now used at Court and in Dancing Schools.
%%center ----------------------------------------------------------------------
%%begintext align
%% Transcription notes:
%%
%% There are no page numbers.
%% The tunes are are numbered sequentially in each of the 3 "parts".
%% the part number (1-3) and the 3-digit tune number (001-121) are
%% used at the start of the file names to preserve the publication order.
%% The rest of the file name is the tune's title, minus punctuation,
%% with underscores instead of spaces, plus the ".abc" suffix.
%% Some titles contain hyphens, which are included in the file name.
%%endtext
%%begintext align
%% This book uses the common practice of :||: repeat symbols between the
%% strains, but usually just a plain double bar at the end.
%% These have been transcribed as-is, which may cause problems and/or error
%% messages from some ABC software.
%% Since there are no dances in this collection,
%% there is no way of guessing what repeat patterns were intended.
%% Readers will have to decide which repeats work for the intended audience
%% For use in dancing, you'll have to discuss this with the dance leader(s) to decide
%% what fits each dance best.
%%endtext
%%begintext align
%% There's an odd symbol  in a couple of tunes,
%% which has a similarity to the ":S:" segno symbol in some other collections of the time,
%% and is used the same way, so it has been transcribed as !segno!.
%%endtext
%%begintext align
%% Many tunes have "incorrect" rhythms at repeats and/or between strains,
%% due to unequal "pickup" notes in different strains.
%% In a few cases, this can easily be fixed by adding a few rests, which I've done.
%% In other cases, no simple fix is possible, so I just transcribed the boundaries as-is.
%% There are a few cases of obviously wrong or missing notes,
%% that are sometimes fixed by comparing similar measures in the tune.
%% If that's not obvious, the notes are transcribed as-is, with an N: note about the problem.
%% Note heads are sometimes not precisely placed and could be either of two adjacent notes.
%% Comparison with other measures often works to choose one, but there are a few that are
%% ambiguous; I've usually just picked one and mentioned it in an N: line.
%%endtext
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