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'''NUNRICH FAIR.''' English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). England, Yorkshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was published in Alexander Will's '''Ten New Fashionable Irish Dances...& three Favorite Waltzs's''' (London, 1800, p. 17) as "Nunrich Fair; or, The Princes Frolick." | '''NUNRICH FAIR.''' AKA and see "[[Wood Nunrich Fair]]." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). England, Yorkshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was published in Alexander Will's '''Ten New Fashionable Irish Dances...& three Favorite Waltzs's''' (London, 1800, p. 17) as "Nunrich Fair; or, The Princes Frolick." Glasgow publisher James Aird printed the melody under the title "[[Wood Nunrich Fair]]" in his '''Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1''' (1782). | ||
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NUNRICH FAIR. AKA and see "Wood Nunrich Fair." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). England, Yorkshire. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was published in Alexander Will's Ten New Fashionable Irish Dances...& three Favorite Waltzs's (London, 1800, p. 17) as "Nunrich Fair; or, The Princes Frolick." Glasgow publisher James Aird printed the melody under the title "Wood Nunrich Fair" in his Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1 (1782).
Source for notated version: a MS collection by fiddler Lawrence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].
Printed sources: Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 73, p. 46.
Recorded sources: