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RED HEATH. English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is unique to London publishers Charles and Samuel Thompson’s 1764 and 1765 country dance collections.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1764), 1764; p. 78. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2), 1765; No. 156.

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