Annotation:General Toast (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
GENERAL TOAST, THE. English, Jig. England; Northumberland, Lancashire. G Major (Peacock, Raven): F Major (Plain Brown). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Peacock, Raven): AABB (Plain Brown).
Source for notated version: the 1845-47 music manuscript of Ellis Knowles, a musician from Radcliffe, Lancashire, England [Plain Brown].
Printed sources: Peacock (Peacock's Tunes), 1980; No. 21, p. 7. Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 19. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 115.
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