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HACKNEY MINUET. AKA - "Belvedera." English, Minuet (3/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. In addition to its publication in Daniel Wright's 1740 country dance collection (printed in London by John Johnson), the melody appears in John Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master, 3rd Edition (London, 1735, p. 106, and in the subsequent edition of 1749, p. 106).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Wright (Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances), 1740; p. 70.

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