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SLATER'S FANCY. English, Country Dance Tune ( time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody, with directions for a country dance, was printed in London by John Young in all four editions of his Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1710-1728). It was also printed by rival London music publisher John Walsh in his Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master, edition of 1719.

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Printed sources : - John Young (Second Volume of the Dancing Master, 1st edition), 1710; p. 116.

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