Annotation:Margate Hoy (The)

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MARGATE HOY, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was entered into the music manuscript copybook of musician John Fife, a fifer or fiddler who may have been from Perthshire and who made his entries in the last two decades of the 18th century. Fife may also have been to sea, for there are references to battles in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean in his collection. See "Annotation:Margate Assembly" for more.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5), 1788; No. 122, p. 61.

Recorded sources:

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