Annotation:Blenheim Castle
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BLENHEIM CASTLE. AKA - "Bleinheim Castle." English, Country Dance (3/4 time). D Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune appears in the first two editions of London publisher John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master as "Bleinheim Castle", and in the latter two editions (of 1718 and 1728) as "Blenheim Castle." The melody was also published by rivals Walsh and Hare in their The Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master in 1719.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Young (Second Volume of the Dancing Master, 1st edition), 1710; p. 70
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