Annotation:Easter Holy Days

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 EASTER HOLY DAYS. English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The country dance is unique to London publisher Charles and Samuel Thompson's 1765 collection. However, a hornpipe called "Duke of York's Hornpipe" employs a first strain that is similar to that of "Easter Holy Days."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2), 1765; No. 56.  Recorded sources:

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