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OLD OXFORD. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was first published in 1735 in London by John Walsh in his Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (p. 199), and also appears in the c. 1749 edition of the same work. See also the major-key version, "Old Tom of Oxford."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Johnson (Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances), 1740; p. 45. Walsh (Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master), 1735; p. 199.

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