Annotation:Prince Rupert's March

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PRINCE RUPERT'S MARCH. English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Chappell): ABB (Sharp). The air was published by John Playford in his English Dancing Master, 1650-1, and in Bellerophon (Gesangh der Zeeden), 1648.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barlow (The Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 81, p. 33. Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 1), 1859; p. 317. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 43 (a facsimile copy of the Playford original). Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1994; p. 46.

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