Annotation:Harliquin Air

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 HARLIQUIN AIR. English, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Perhaps the title refers to a melody or one of the songs in Thomas Arne's (1710-1778) pantomime Harlequin Restor'd, or Taste Alamode, written in 1736.  Source for notated version: the 1770 Benjamin Cooke music manuscript (Leeds, west Yorkshire) [Callaghan].  Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 37.  Recorded sources:

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