Annotation:Maid of the Mill (3)

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MAID OF THE MILL [3]. English, Morris Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB(x3),A. Collected from the playing of the morris team in the Cotswold village of Bucknell, Oxfordshire.

The earliest known photograph of a Cotswold morris team, Bucknell, c. 1870. Informant Joe Powell is at center (The Morris Ring http://www.themorrisring.org/tradition/bucknell

Source for notated version: pipe and tabor player Joe Powell, 1927, via Dr. Arthur Peck [Bacon].

Printed sources: Bacon (The Morris Ring), 1974; p. 117.

Recorded sources: Topic TSCD458, John Kirkpatrick - "Plain Capers" (1976/1992).

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