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Theme code Index	3b4 3b1 3b4 27bL
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance, Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	2 flats
Mode	Aeolian (minor)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Charles and Samuel Thompson
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances vol. 1
Tune and/or Page number	No. 198
Year of publication/Date of MS	1757
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Tune annotations

X:1
T:Breeches Loose [2]
M:6/8
L:1/8
B:Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757)
Z:Transcribed and edited by Fynn Titford-Mock, 2007
Z:abc's:AK/Fiddler's Companion 
K:Gmin
A|BdB cAc|BGG G2A|BdB cAc|AFF F2A|
BdB cAc|Bdg f2e|dcB (A/B/c)A|BGG G2:|
|:A|Bd(f f)dB|fdB fdB|ce(g g)ec|gec gec|
Bd(f f)dB|bag fdB|(c/d/e)c (A/B/c)A|BGG G2:||

Tune annotations

BREECHES LOOSE [2]. English, Jig. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was first published in John Johnson's Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (London, 1750), and then in David Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 of the Most Celebrated Country Dances (London, 1756). Across the Channel, the melody was picked up by Benoit Andrez for his Recueil de Contradances Angloises (Liege, c. 1780). "Breeches Loose" appears on the same page in Thompson's (1757) collection as the jig "Petticoat Loose," obviously a companion tune.

Printed source: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 198.