Annotation:Country Farmer's Daughter (The)

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COUNTRY FARMER'S DAUGHTER, THE. AKA and see "Painted Chamber." English, Country Dance Tune (6/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The air was published by John Playford in his Dancing Master, supplement to the 6th edition (1688) under the title "Painted Chamber" with "Country Farmer's Daughter" given as an alternate title. I the 17th and 18th editions of the long-running series (then published by John Young) the title was given as "The Country Famer's Daughter". The Painted Chamber was a part of the original Palace of Westminster, and was the place where the evidence of the witnesses summoned was heard at the trial of Charles I.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 301, p. 74. Watson (A Rollick of Recorders or Other Instruments), 1975; No. 4, p. 5.

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