Annotation:Merry Bacchanal (The)

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MERRY BACHANAL, THE. AKA - "Merry Bacchanalian (The)." English, Air and Country Dance (6/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was published by London publisher John Johnson in his Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (1740), but was also the air to a song, printed on 18th century single sheets in Britain and America. Come here's to the nymph yt I love

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Johnson (Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances), 1740; p. 78.

Recorded sources:

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