Rakes of Rochester (The)
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X:1
T:Rakes of Rochester
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Country Dance Tune
B:Walter Rainstorp music manuscript collection (1747, p. 23)
F: https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2057949
N:The cover is inscribed “Walter Rainstorp, 1747. Bought in Cheap Side,
N:London, 1747”.
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:A
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X: 1
T:Rakes of Rochester. Ru1.030, The
B:Rutherford's Country Dances Vol 1, 1756
Z:village music project, Steve Mansfield July 2015
M:2/4
L:1/8
W:Cast off one Cou. & turn your Partner .| Cast up
W:again & turn her :| Foot it & Hands across with
W:the 2d Cou. .|. The same back again :||: The first
W:Man foot it to the 2d Wo. & turn her .|| The first
W:Wo. does the same with the 2d Man :|| Cross over
W:and half Figure .||. R[igh]t Hand & Left :|
Q:1/4=90
K:A
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|: B | Tc2 Be | Tc2 Be | {d}cB/A/ GA | B/A/G/F/ EB |Tc2 Be | Tc2Be | {d}c(B/A/) c/B/A/G/ | A3 :|
X:172
T:Rakes of Rochester, The
M:2/4
L:1/8
B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757)
Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007
Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:A
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X:2
T:Rakes of Rochester, The
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Country Dance
B:James Aird – Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3 (Glasgow, 1788, No. 534, p. 203)
N:”Humbly dedicated to the Volunteers and Defensive Bands of Great Britain and Ireland”
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
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