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DRAPEAUX, LES. (The Flags) French, Country Dance Tune (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears as early as 1729 when it was published in Paris in M. Le Clerc's Premier Receuil de Contre Danses. It was adopted for use in Britain, and appears in Neil Stewart's Select Collection of Scots English Irish and Foreign Airs Jiggs & Marches (Edinburgh, 1788) and in James Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3 (Glasgow, 1788).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3), 1788; No. 556, p. 177.

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