Annotation:Maid Peeped Out at the Window (The)
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MAID PEEPED OUT AT THE WINDOW, THE. AKA and see "Friar in the Well (The)." English, Country Dance Tune (6/4 or 6/8 time). G Mixolydian (Barnes, Karpeles, Raven, Sharp): G Dorian (Chappell). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Chappell): ABB (Sharp): AABB (Barnes, Karpeles, Raven). The air appears earliest in John Playford's English Dancing Master (1650). Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 1, 1859; p. 296. Karpeles (A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs), 1951; p. 21. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pp. 27 & 41 (the latter is a facsimile copy of Playford's original). Sharp (Country Dance Tunes), 1909; p. 68.
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Recorded sources: Varrick VR-013, Bare Necessities - "English Country Dances" (1987).