Annotation:Fair Quaker of Deal (1)
Tune properties and standard notation
FAIR QUAKER OF DEAL. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune dates to 1718, when it first appears in the Second Volume of the Dancing Master (3rd edition, p. 235), published by John Young, heir to the Playford music publishing and instrument selling concern in London. Young published it again in 1728 in his 4th edition of the volume. "Fair Quaker of Deal" also appears in the Walsh's similarly entitled 'Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master, editions of 1719 and 1754. John Johnson prints a tune called "Sailors Dance, or Fair Quaker of De'al" in his 1758 collection Two Hundred Favourite Country Dances..., vol. 8", but it is a different melody.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.
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