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 Theme code Index    1H3H5H4H 3H2H1H7
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    England
 Genre/Style    English
 Meter/Rhythm    Country Dance
 Key/Tonic of    D
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    6/4, 6/8
 History    
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    John Playford
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Dancing Master 11th Edition (supplement)
 Tune and/or Page number    
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1702
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 Title of recording    
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'COTTEY HOUSE. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Cottey House" was first published in the supplement to the 11th edition of the Dancing Master (London, 1702), and appeared in all subsequent editions of the long running series until the 18th and final edition of 1728 (printed by John Young). It also appears in Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master, printed in London in 1718 (with editions in 1731 and 1754).

Printed sources: Barlow (The Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 491, p. 109. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 19.


X:1
T:Cottey House
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
A|d3 f2g|afb gea|fdg ecf|dBe c2A|d3 f2g|
afb geg|aBc dB2|(A3 A2)::A|d2d B2B|ede c2c|
fef ^ABc|c2B B2f|bab g2e|aga f2f|gfg cBc|
aga dcd|bed cAG|F A2 GB2|A d2 Be2|Adc d2:||

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