Annotation:Harlequin in the Mud

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HARLEQUIN IN THE MUD. AKA - "Busby's Frolick." English, Jig and Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The alternate title "Busby's Frolick" is given with the tune in London publisher John Walsh' Jr.'s Compleat Country Dancing Master, vol. 6 (1754).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Johnson (Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, vol.2), 1742; p. 16. Walsh (Compleat Country Dancing Master, vol 6), 1754; p. 148.

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