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THREE AROUND THREE. AKAand see “Pleasures of the Town (5).” English, Morris Dance Tune (2/4 time). England, Cheshire. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Three around Three is a dance figure the occurs in several country dances, and the tune takes its name from association with the dance figure. The original name may have been "Pleasures of the Town," perhaps n association Henry Fielding's playThe Author’s Farce and the Pleasures of the Town (1730). It is also association with a North West morris dance from Marston, Cheshire. English collector Reg Hall is said to have introduced the tune to 20th century trad. musicians.


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Printed sources : - Sweet (Fifer’s Delight), 1965/1981; p. 81.

Recorded sources : - Cottey Light Industries CLI-903, Dexter et al - "Over the Water" (1993. Learned from the playing of the morris dance group Knots of May). Beautiful Jo Records,Magpie Lane - "Jack-in-the-Green: English Songs and Tunes" (2009).




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