Annotation:King Street Festino

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X:1 T:King Street Festino M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:William Winter music manuscript collection (1850, Somerset) K:G c|B2A G2D|G2A B2G|cBA...



KING STREET FESTINO. English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset.


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Printed sources : - Longman and Broderip's Compleat Collection of 200 Favorite Country Dances, 1781; p. 7. Thomas Skillern (Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels...Country Dances), London, 1780; p. 43. Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 54, p. 30 (ms. originally dated 1850).






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