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LONG ODDS. AKA - "Miss Laton's Hornpipe." English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. The melody was first published (with dance instructions) in Preston and Son's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1791 (London), "As they are performed at Court, Bath, and all Public Assemblys." There was a song called "Long Odds," from Charles Dibdin's (1745-1814) The Long Odds : A Serenata, in Two Acts (1783), commencing: "And did you hear what sad disaster." The country dance title may have derived from it.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.
Recorded sources: Antilles (Island) AN-7003, Kirkpatrick & Hutchings - "The Compleat Dancing Master" (1973).
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