Annotation:Drop (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
DROP, THE. AKA and see "Ward's Drop." English, Slip Jig. England, Northumberland. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody makes several appearances in London publisher Walsh's collections: Caledonian Country Dances (London, 17), The Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (London, 1735), and The Compleat Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Third (London, 1749).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Seattle (William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 318
Recorded sources: