Annotation:Favorite (6) (Hornpipe) (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
FAVOURITE [5], THE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was originally published in Charles and Samuel Thompson's Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773). As with numerous other tunes from the Thompsons' 1773 collection, it was entered into the 1788 music copybook of fiddlers John and William Pitt Turner (Norwich, Conn.).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773; No. 183.
Recorded sources: