Annotation:Lass of Perth (The)

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LASS OF PERTH, THE. AKA - "Lass of Parth." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). G Major. Standafrd tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Lass of Perth" was first published in John Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master, 3rd edition (London, c. 1735) and in later editions of the same volume. It was also published in London in John Johnson's Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (1744). "Lass of Parth" [sic] is one of the "missing tunes" from William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance tune manuscript.

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Printed sources: Walsh (The Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master, 3rd edition), London, 1735; No. 17.

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