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|f_annotation=BILLY'S FANCY.  American, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The tune was entered into the 1859 music manuscript collection of amateur musician M.E. Eames, who may have lived in Philadelphia (judging from some tune names in the collection). There were a few tunes that were entered into Eames' collection that also appear as contiguous tunes in Elias Howe's '''Musician's Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7''' (Boston, 1880-1882) (see also "[[Lazy Trolloupe (The)]]", "[[Gentleman Blacksmith (The)]]"), indicating that Eames and Howe had them from the same page in an earlier, as yet unknown, source.  
|f_annotation='''BILLY'S FANCY.''' American, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The tune was entered into the 1859 music manuscript collection of amateur musician M.E. Eames, who may have lived in Philadelphia (judging from some tune names in the collection). There several tunes that were entered into Eames' collection contiguously that appear in a similar order in Elias Howe's '''Musician's Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7''' (Boston, 1880-1882) (see also "[[Gentleman Blacksmith (The)]]," "[[Lazy Trolloupe (The)]]", "[[French Fancy Dance]]"), indicating that Eames and Howe had them from the same page in an earlier, as yet unknown, source.
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|f_printed_sources=Elias Howe ('''Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7'''), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 642.
|f_printed_sources=Elias Howe ('''Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7'''), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 642.
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BILLY'S FANCY. American, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The tune was entered into the 1859 music manuscript collection of amateur musician M.E. Eames, who may have lived in Philadelphia (judging from some tune names in the collection). There several tunes that were entered into Eames' collection contiguously that appear in a similar order in Elias Howe's Musician's Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (Boston, 1880-1882) (see also "Gentleman Blacksmith (The)," "Lazy Trolloupe (The)", "French Fancy Dance"), indicating that Eames and Howe had them from the same page in an earlier, as yet unknown, source.


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Printed sources : - Elias Howe (Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 642.






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