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MAD ROBIN. English, Country Dance Tune and Air (4/4 time). F Major (Chappell): B Flat Major (Barnes, Sharp). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Chappell): AABB (Sharp): AA'BB' (Barnes). This once-popular melody appears earliest in Playford's Dancing Master (1686 and all later additions); and the ballads operas Polly (1728), The Lover's Opera (1729), and The Stage Mutineers (1733), among others.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 278, p. 69. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 2, 1859; p. 56. Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 68.

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