Annotation:Craftsman (The)
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CRAFTSMAN, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. In addition to the publications listed below, the melody can be found in the music manuscript collections of Walter Rainstorp (Cheapside, London, c. 1740) and Thomas Hammersley (London, 1790).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Walsh (The Compleat Country Dancing-Master), 1731; p. 4. Walsh (Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth), London, 1740; No. 4. Wright (Wright's Compleat Collection of celebrated country Dances), 1740; p. 20 (published in London by John Johnson).
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