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ASH WEDNESDAY [2]. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody and country dance directions were published in London by John Johnson in his Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (1750) and in David Rutherford's Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 of the Most Celebrated Country Dances (c. 1756). London musician Thomas Hammersley entered it into his 1790 music manuscript collection.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Moffat (Dances of the Olden Time), 1922; p. 9.

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