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X:1 T:Hot Bath, The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Straight and Skillern – Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (c. 1775, No. 79, p. 40) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D dfa gec|dfa gec|dfd Bge|ced cBA| dfa gec|dfa gec|dfd Bge|TcBc d3:| |:FGA AB=c|B^cd cde|dAd eAe|fdf {f}e3| FGA AB=c|Bcd cde|dag fed|TcBc {c}d3:|]



HOT BATH, THE. English, Country Dance Tune or Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody and country dance directions also appear in Thomas Skillern's Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels...Country Dances (1780).

Bathing in the hot springs at Bath. Men and women bathed fully clothed in special costumes


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Printed sources : - Straight and Skillern (Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), c. 1775; No. 79, p. 40.






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