Annotation:Mock Hobby Horse

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MOCK HOBBY HORSE. AKA - "Mock Hoby-Horse." English, Country Dance Tune (6/4 or 6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB (Karpeles, Raven, Sharp): AABB (Barnes). The melody first appears in Henry Playford's Dancing Master [1], 10th edition (1698, p. 198), and was retained in the long-running series through the 18th and last edition of 1728. "Mock Hobby Horse" was also published by John Walsh in The Compleat Country Dancing Master, editions of 1718, 1731 and (by his son, also John Walsh) 1754.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Karpeles & Schofield (A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs), 1951; p. 19. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 21. Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 55.

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