Annotation:Rising Sun (7)

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RISING SUN [7]. English, Jig and Country Dance Tune (6/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune was first published by dancing master Daniel Wright in his An Extraordinary Collection of Pleasant & Merry Humours (c. 1715, p. 7). It was subsequently published in London publisher John Walsh's The Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1735, p. 49, and edition of 1749).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 36.

Recorded sources: -RBRCD29, Leveret - "In the Round" (2016).

See also listing at:
Hear the tune played by the band Leveredge on youtube.com [1]/