Annotation:Wearmouth Lasses

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WEARMOUTH LASSES. AKA and see "Yarmouth Lasses." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). England, Yorkshire. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in several English musicians’ manuscript collections of the 19th century as both "Wearmouth-" and "Yarmouth Lasses," including John Moore (Tyneside, 1841), Laurence Leadley (see below), the Browne family manuscripts (Troutbeck, Cumbria), and William Hall Lister (East Boldon, near Newcastle, mid-19thc.).

Source for notated version: an MS collection by fiddler Laurence Leadley, 1827-1897 (Helperby, Yorkshire) [Merryweather & Seattle].

Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 66. Merryweather & Seattle (The Fiddler of Helperby), 1994; No. 78, p. 47 (appears as an untitled jig).

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