Annotation:Sailor's Dance (1)

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X:1 % T:Sailor's Dance [1], The C:Henry Purcell (1659-1695) M:C L:1/8 R:Air K:Bb b2f2g4|f2d2 e4|c2 BA d2 AB|A2 F2 F4| D2F2B2F2|G2c2B2A2|c2f2d2g2|agf=e f4:| |:f2d2 B4|b2f2 g4|f2d2 edcB|AcBA G3c| A2 GF B2 AG|Acfc d2 ga|b2 ag fedc|BdcA B4:|]


SAILOR'S DANCE [1], THE. English, Air (2/2 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. The tune was composed by English composer Henry Purcell [1] (1659-1695) for his opera Dido and Aeneas (1689, Act III). Emmerson (1971) believes the tune is very suggestive of the common-time 'modern' hornpipe rhythm.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Emmerson (Rantin’ Pipe and Tremblin’ String), 1971; No. 91, p. 165.

Recorded sources: - \

Hear the tune on youtube.com [2][3]


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