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LADY SPELLOR. AKA - "Lady Spillers." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning. One part. The melody was published by John Playford in his English Dancing Master [1] (1651). The tune was retained in subsequent editions of the long-running series through the eighth edition of 1690, after which it was deleted.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 52, p. 27. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 39 (a facsimile copy of the Playford original). Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1994; p. 34.
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