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MARS AND VENUS. English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). E Dorian/Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This dance melody ("Longways for as many as will") appears in the Third Volume of the Dancing Master [1], 3rd edition (1726, p. 31), printed in London by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns.

Venus and Mars, by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1483



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.

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