Annotation:Old Oxford

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OLD OXFORD. AKA - "Owld Oxfford," "Peace and Plenty or Old Oxford." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was first published in 1719 by John Young in his Second Volume of the Dancing Master [1], 3rd edition, as a "Longways dance for as many as will" under the title "Peace and Plenty or Old Oxford." Later it was printed in London by John Walsh in his Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1735, 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.

Recorded sources: Ex Cathedra Records, Early Music New York - "A Colonial Christmas."

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