Annotation:Fiddler's Choice (2)

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 FIDDLER'S CHOICE [2]. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Large intervals in the melody require skillful string crossing to play this tune. It was originally published in Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fifth (London, 1754, p. 16), and does not appear to have gained much popularity.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Knowles (A Northern Lass), 1995; p. 9.  Recorded sources:

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