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COTILLON [4] (Youth's the Season). AKA - "Toney's Rant," "Zoney's Rant." English, Air (cut time). London publisher John Young printed the tune and country dance directions ("Longways for as many as will") in The Third Volume of the Dancing Master [1], 2nd edition (1726, p. 102), under the title "Toney's Rant." The melody was the vehicle for a song in John Gay's hugely successful Beggar's Opera (1729, Air XXII) beginning "Youth's the season made for joys." Frank Kidson (1922) identifies the tune as a French cotillion. Entered as "Cottillion" [sic] as the main title and "Youth's the season" as the alternate title, the piece appears in the music manuscript copybook collection of London musician Thomas Hammersley (c. 1790).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 57.

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