Annotation:Happy Groves

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 HAPPY GROVES. English, Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). This air, by John Barrett, appears in John Gay's Beggar's Opera (1729), followed by appearances in a number of period ballad operas such as The Downfall of Bribery, or the Honest Men of Taunton (1733) and Rome Excis'd (1733).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 68.  Recorded sources:

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