Annotation:Charter's Reel
Tune properties and standard notation
CHARTER'S REEL. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is unique to London publishers Charles and Samuel Thompson's third country dance collection (1773).
Printed source: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 5.