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LONDON'S LOYALTY. English, Old or Triple Hornpipe (3/2 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A later addition to the Playford Dancing Master series, this triple hornpipe first appears in the 13th edition of 1706, the first to have been published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concern. It was retained through the 18th and final edition of 1728. The tune also appears in the second volume of D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy (London, 1719-20, pp. 132-4), Walsh & Hare's Compleat Country Dancing Master (1718, p. 46), and Johnson's Wright's Compleat Collection of celebrated country Dances, vol. 2 (London, 1740, p. 49).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 31.
Recorded sources:
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