Annotation:Oxford Waits

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OXFORD WAITS. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Waits were groups of professional musicians sometimes employed by municipalities in England to play on ceremonial and state occasions, and to "sound the hours" to the general population. Waits in the town of Oxford were established by the time of Elizabeth I and continued through the first decade of the 18th century.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Walsh (The Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master), London, 1735; p. 170 (reissued in 1749). Daniel Wright (Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances), London, 1740; p. 86.

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