Billy Boy (1)

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 Theme code Index    1442 36L5L1
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    England
 Genre/Style    English, Morris
 Meter/Rhythm    Jig/Quadrille
 Key/Tonic of    F
 Accidental    1 flat
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    6/8
 History    ENGLAND(South)
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Lionel Bacon
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Morris Ring (The)
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 77
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1974
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    
 Media    
 Score   ()   


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BILLY BOY [1]. English, Jig and Morris Dance Tune. F Major (Bacon, Carlin): G Major (Mallinson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB, x4. A truncated version of "Constant Billy." From the Bledington, Gloucestershire, a small village in England's Cotswolds, where the melody was collected in 1925 from fiddler Charles Benfield.

Printed sources: Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 77. Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 53, p. 40. Mallinson (Mally's Cotswold Morris Book), 1988, vol. 2; No. 3, p. 4.

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