Annotation:Happy Captive (1) (The)

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HAPPY CAPTIVE. AKA and see "Dusky Night (The)." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in Longman and Broderips Compleat Collection of 200 Favorite Country Dances (London, 1781), and in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 4 (London, 1780).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.

Recorded sources:




Tune properties and standard notation