Annotation:Female Sailor (The)

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 FEMALE SAYLOR/SAILOR, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Dorian. Standard tuning. AAB (Barnes): AABB' (Johnson). The tune dates to 1710, when it appeared in Raoul Auger Feuillet's For the Further Improvement of Dancing, published in London by the firm of Walsh & Randall.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 1), 1986. Johnson (Twenty-Eight Country Dances as Done at the New Boston Fair), vol. 8, 1988; p. 4.  Recorded sources:

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