Annotation:Miss Gamble's Frolick
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MISS GAMBLE'S FROLICK. English, Jig. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody can be found in Miscellaneous Correspondence in Prose and Verse (1755, p. 202) by Benjamin Martin [1] [Library of Congress, AP3.M67, Rare Book Room]. Printed on the same page is the antisemiticly-titled "The Anti-Jew Minuet", composed "by a Brother."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Trim et al (The Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy, vol. 1), 1990; No. 39.
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