Annotation:Whirligig (1)
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WHIRLIGIG [1], THE. AKA and see "Woodicock." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABBA (Sharp): ABBCBBC (Barnes, Raven). The dance instructions to “The Whirligig” were published in John Playford's English Dancing Master (1651), “to the tune of ‘Woodicock’.”
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 38. Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 43.
Recorded sources: Familiar Records FAM 47, Pyewackett "7 to Midnight" (1985. Appears as "Woodicock").