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This directory contains the tunes and  dances  in  J.   Gray's  "Twenty  four
Country  Dances  (for  the  Year  1812)",  as transcribed by John Chambers in
August 2014.  Photos of the original booklet, with transcriptions  to  modern
staff notation, were found at:
   http://www.eatmt.org.uk/gray_1812.htm

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The tunes in this collection aren't themselves numbered. The fie names are of
the  form PPN_Title.abc, where PP is the page number and N is the tune number
on the page (1 or 2).  Additional fields have been added to  the  file  names
giving the key, number of bars, and number of staff lines.  

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The dance phrasing seems to be partly indicated by use of "."  and  ":";  the
latter apparently used for the midpoint of the dance. But these are also used
to mark abbreviations, so they're not very useful information.

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Most of the titles are capitalized. I've used the approach of putting initial
articles  (a, an, the) in lower-case, to make things easier for software that
ignores initial lower-case words.  In the combined "alltunes" file, the first
letters in titles are capitalized, for the benefit of those who prefer titles
that way.  The occasional use of lower-case words in titles doesn't make much
sense, and is probably not useful.

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A few tunes have initials or a name at the upper right.  These have been  put
in  a  C:  (Composer) line in the ABC, though it's not actually known whether
these referred to the composer or a source.

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