Annotation:Humors of the Bath

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Tune properties and standard notation


HUMOURS OF THE BATH. AKA and see "Bath Medley," "Spring's A-Coming (The)." English, Country Dance and Air (6/8 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune appears in Watts' Musical Miscellany (1729), Playford's Dancing Master (vol. iii), Walsh's Dancing Master (vol. iii), and The Wedding and numerous other ballad operas. See note for "Bath Medley" for more on the town of Bath, England, which is referenced in this double-entendre title.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 2, 1859; p. 177.

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Tune properties and standard notation