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BLACK JACK [3]. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Sharp, Walsh): AABB (Karpeles, Raven). The tune was first published in John Playford's Dancing Master in the supplement to the 3rd Edition (London, 1665), and appeared in all subsequent editions of the long-running series, through the 16th (1716), although dropped from the final two editions. A different melody called "Black Jack" appears in the 17th and 18th editions of the Dancing Master (1721 & 1728). Playford's original "Black Jack" was also printed by John Walsh in his Compleat Country Dancing Master of 1718, and in editions of 1731 and 1754. Antoine Pointel printed it in Paris in 1700 in his Airs de Danses Angloises Hollandoises et Francoises a Deux Parties.

According to Grose's The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue a 'black jack' was "a jug to drink out of, made of jacked leather" although whether the tune title refers to this is unknown.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Karpeles & Schofield (100 English Country Dance Airs), 1951: p. 14. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 21. Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 25. Walsh (Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth), London, 1740; No. 177.

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-'''BLACK JACK [3]'''. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Sharp, Walsh): AABB (Karpeles, Raven). The tune was first published in John Playford's '''Dancing Master''' in the supplement to the 3rd Edition (London, 1665), and appeared in all subsequent editions of the long-running series, through the 16th (1716), although dropped from the final two editions. A different melody called "Black Jack" appears in the 17th and 18th editions of the '''Dancing Master''' (1721 & 1728). Playford's original "Black Jack" was also printed by John Walsh in his '''Compleat Country Dancing Master''' of 1718, and in editions of 1731 and 1754. Antoine Pointel printed it in Paris in 1700 in his '''Airs de Danses Angloises Hollandoises et Francoises a Deux Parties.''' According to Grose's '''The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue''' a 'black jack' was "a jug to drink out of, made of jacked leather."
+'''BLACK JACK [3]'''. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Sharp, Walsh): AABB (Karpeles, Raven). The tune was first published in John Playford's '''Dancing Master''' in the supplement to the 3rd Edition (London, 1665), and appeared in all subsequent editions of the long-running series, through the 16th (1716), although dropped from the final two editions. A different melody called "Black Jack" appears in the 17th and 18th editions of the '''Dancing Master''' (1721 & 1728). Playford's original "Black Jack" was also printed by John Walsh in his '''Compleat Country Dancing Master''' of 1718, and in editions of 1731 and 1754. Antoine Pointel printed it in Paris in 1700 in his '''Airs de Danses Angloises Hollandoises et Francoises a Deux Parties.'''
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+According to Grose's '''The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue''' a 'black jack' was "a jug to drink out of, made of jacked leather" although whether the tune title refers to this is unknown.
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 ''Printed sources'': Karpeles & Schofield ('''100 English Country Dance Airs'''), 1951: p. 14. Raven ('''English Country Dance Tunes'''), 1984; p. 21. Sharp ('''Country Dance Tunes'''), 1909; p. 25. Walsh ('''Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth'''), London, 1740; No. 177.
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