Annotation:Humors of Dublin (3)

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 HUMOURS OF DUBLIN [3]. AKA - "Slowmen of London (The)." English, Jig (6/8 or 6/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The melody appears in John Walsh's Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master (London, 1735), his Compleat Country Dancing Master, volume the Third (London, c. 1749), and Johnson's publication of Daniel Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (London, c. 1740, where the alternate title "The Slowmen of London" appears). The melody also appears in John and William Neale's Choice Collection of Country Dances (Dublin, c. 1726).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2004; p. 62.  Recorded sources:

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