Annotation:Fair and Softly

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FAIR AND SOFTLY. English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The tune dates from 1726 when it first appears in the Third Volume of The Dancing Master, or Directions for Dancing Country Dances (2nd edition), published in London by instrument maker and music-seller John Young. Young was heir to the Playford music publishing concern. The melody also appears in Walsh's 3rd Book of the New Country Dancing Master (London, 1728).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.

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