Annotation:New Royal Exchange (The)
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NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE, THE. English, Air (4/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The air first appears in London music publisher John Playford's Dancing Master, third edition (1657 and 1665, p. 124) under the title "New New Exchange," named after a large commercial building in London that competed with the Royal Exchange. However, a previous tune had been called "New Exchange (The)," and to avoid confusion Playford renamed it "The New Royal Exchange" beginning with the Dancing Master [1], fourth edition (1670). The tune was retained in the long-running series of Dancing Master editions through the eighteenth and final edition of 1728 (then published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 127, p. 40. Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 2, 1859; p. 8.
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