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CATCHING OF QUAILS. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The modality of this tune, which was originally published in Playford's Dancing Master (4th edition, 1670), shifts from C to G to D Major. It was retained in the long-running Dancing Master series through the 10th edition, 1698. The title was one specifically mentioned in plays of the 17th century as being for bagpipe repertoire (Collinson, The Bagpipe, 1975).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 197, p. 52. Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 27.

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