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JACK GRACE'S FRONT. English, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appeared in John Hinton's periodical Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (London, 1759). It also appears in the John Fifle music manuscript collection of 1780-1804. Fife was a resident of Perthshire Scotland, but may well have spent some time at sea, for there are indications in the manuscript of battles in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 2), 1765; No. 41.

Recorded sources:

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