Annotation:Up Goes Ely

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UP GOES ELY. English, Country Dance Tune (9/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune was first printed (in 9/3 time) in the Third Volume of the Dancing Master [1], 2nd edition (1726), published in London by John Young, the heir to the Playford publishing concerns. "Up Goes Ely" also appears in Walsh and Hare's New Country Dancing Master, 3rd Book (London, 1728, p. 87).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 48.

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