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'''GUN FLEET [1], THE'''. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the last two editions of Playford's '''Dancing Master''' [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play4034.htm] (the 17th of 1721, and the 18th of 1728), at the time published in London by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concern.  
'''GUN FLEET [1], THE'''. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the last two editions of Playford's '''Dancing Master''' [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play4034.htm] (the 17th of 1721, and the 18th of 1728), at the time published in London by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concern. There is also a "Gun Fleet" in an earlier Playford volume, entitled '''Apollo's Banquet: containing Instructions, and Variety of New Tunes, Ayres, Jiggs, and several New Scotch Tunes for the Treble-Violin. To which is added, The Tunes of the newest French Dances, now used at Court and in Dancing-Schools. The Sixth Edition, with new Additions. In the Savoy: Printed by E. Jones, for Henry Playford at his Shop near the Temple Church, and at his House over against the Blue-Ball in Arundel Street in the Strand, 1690''' (No. 23).  
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GUN FLEET [1], THE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the last two editions of Playford's Dancing Master [1] (the 17th of 1721, and the 18th of 1728), at the time published in London by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concern. There is also a "Gun Fleet" in an earlier Playford volume, entitled Apollo's Banquet: containing Instructions, and Variety of New Tunes, Ayres, Jiggs, and several New Scotch Tunes for the Treble-Violin. To which is added, The Tunes of the newest French Dances, now used at Court and in Dancing-Schools. The Sixth Edition, with new Additions. In the Savoy: Printed by E. Jones, for Henry Playford at his Shop near the Temple Church, and at his House over against the Blue-Ball in Arundel Street in the Strand, 1690 (No. 23).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 534. Young (Dancing Master, 17th Edition), 1721; p. 13.

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