Annotation:Oswestry Wake
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OSWESTRY WAKE. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The tune was first published in John Young's third edition of The Second Book of the Dancing Master (London, 1718), and in Walshy & Hare's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1719). There is a Welsh dance to the tune called Dawns Croesoswallt, published in Eddie Jones' Dawnsie Twmpath.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 74.
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