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QUEEN’S SQUARE, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. “The Queen’s Square” appears as a longways dance (for as many as will) in publisher John Young’s Dancing Master, second volume, third edition [1] (London, 1718) and again in the fourth edition (1728). Young was the heir to John and Henry Playford’s long-running Dancing Master series.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 105.
Recorded sources:
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