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X:1 T:Alexander [2], a country dance M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:John Rook music manuscript collection (1840, p. 24) N:Rook was a multi-instrumentalist from Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G BAB d2d|cBA B2G|GFG A2G|{G}FED B2G| BcB d2d|cBA B2G|GFG A2G|FED G2|| B|ABA AFd|Afd Aaf|ge^c dAF|AGF E3| ABA Aff|Afd Aaf|ge^c dAF|EA^c d3|| |:cdc (ac)a|Bgd (bB)b|cdc aca|Bgf (g3 g2)z:|]



ALEXANDER [2]. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/8). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in the music manuscript collections of John Rook [1] (Waverton, Cumbria, 1840), William Clarke (Feltwell, East Anglia) (mid-19th century), and of Ellis Knowles (Radcliffe, Lancashire, c. 1845-47).


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