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HEALTH [2], THE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in all four editions of London publisher John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1710). It also appears in Walsh and Randall's The New Country Dancing Master...Second Book (London, 1710), and Walsh and Hare's The Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1719). John Walsh published a new edition of the latter volume in 1730, and his son (also John Walsh) issued a third edition in 1749. Young was heir to the Playford publishing concerns.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Young (The Second Volume of the Dancing Master), 1710; p. 163.

Recorded sources:

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