This CD has a selection of 20 of the 94 tunes discovered in the manuscript music book of Frances Prideaux-Brune,at Prideaux Place,Padstow in 2006.This music dates from about 1788 and includes tunes played for country dancing recreated here on violoin and harp,instruments typical of the Cornish country house environment.
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The Storace
Lady Townshend's Delight
The Ball
Mrs Wollaston's Minuet
Quick & Merry
La Belle Isabella
Miss Pitt's Minuet
La Belle Jannette
Stover Lodge
Isabella's Minuet
L'Air Inflammable a Cotillon
Theodore
Minuet 1778 (Mrs Bold)
The Comoion
Miss Robertson's Minuet
Ap Shenkin
The New German Spa
Merrily Danced the Quakers
The Minuet de Carlin
The Chorus Jigg
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