Annotation:Billingsgate
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BILLINGSGATE. AKA - "Billings-Gate." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune was published in all four editions of John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1710-1728), and in rival publishers Walsh and Randall's The New Country Dancing Master, Second Book (1710), and Walsh and Hare's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1719).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Young (Second Volume of the Dancing Master, 1st edition), 1710; p. 139.
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