Annotation:Justice Guttle

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JUSTICE GUTTLE. English, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The music also appears in the 1786 commonplace book of American flute player Henry Beck. Justice Guttle was a gluttonous character from the British farce The Lying Vallet, by actor and producer David Garrick, who staged it in 1740 at London's Drury Lane.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 144.

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