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ODDITY, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was originally published in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773). It also was entered into the 1788 music manuscript copybook of fiddlers John and William Pitt Turner (Norwich, Conn.), as were numerous tunes from the Thompson's 1773 collection.

Perhaps the title refers to the fact that the tune sounds equally well when noted in 3/2 time, like a triple hornpipe.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 104.

Recorded sources:

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