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X:1 T:Stag Hunt, The, or Windsor Amusement M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance B:Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson - Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (1788, p. 36) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G Bcd ded|g2d e2d|efg dcB|AAA A3| d^cd ede|fef gfg|agf gfe|ddd d3:| |:dgd d2B|cec c2A|BGB dcB|AAA A3| dgd d2B|cec c2A|gfe dcB|AGF G3:|]



STAG HUNT, THE. AKA - "Windsor Amusement." English, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Stag Hunt" was entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript collections of John Roose (Manchester) and William Winter (Somerset, southwest England).


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Printed sources : - Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), 1788; p. 36. Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 106, p. 45 (ms. originally dated 1850).






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