Annotation:Pretty Nun (The)
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PRETTY NUN, THE. English, Country Dance Tune and Jig (6/4 and 6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Raven): AA'BB (Young). The melody was the vehicle for a country dance ("Longways for as many as will") in London publisher John Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1719, republished in editions of 1735 and 1749), and in John Young's Third Volume of the Dancing Master, 2nd edition of c. 1726.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 19.
Recorded sources: