Annotation:Trip to the Oakes

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X: 1 T: Trip to the Oakes %R: march, reel B: Chas & Sam Thompson "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1778", London 1778, p.67 #1 F: http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books/browse-thompsons1778# Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> (added dance description) M: 2/4 L: 1/8 K: C % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |:\ c2ec | cBAG | defg | fedc |\ c2ec | cBAG | AcBd | c2c2 :| |:\ G3 A | GFEF | GABc | defg |\ G3 A | GFEF | AcBd | c4 :| % - - - - - - - - - - Dance description - - - - - - - - - - %%begintext align %% Cast off two Cu: .|. lead up to the top %% and cast off :|. hands 4 at bottom .|: %% Right and Left at top :|: %%endtext


TRIP TO THE OAKES. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Trip to the Oakes" was also entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England.


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Printed sources : - Charles & Samuel Thompson (Twenty Four County Dances for the Year 1778), 1778; p. 67. Thompson (Compleat Coll. of 200 Favourite Country Dances Vol. IV), 1780; No. 133. Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 324, p. 114 (ms. originally dated 1850).





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