Annotation:New Black Fryer's Bridge

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NEW BLACK FRYER'S BRIDGE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Blackfriar's Bridge [1], spanning the Thames in London, was constructed with nine semi-elliptical arches of Portland stone and took nine years to build, opening to the public in 1769.

Mr. Mylne's design for New Black Fryer's Bridge, c. 1760

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Straight and Skillern (Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), c. 1775; No. 144, p. 72.

Recorded sources:

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