Annotation:New Royal Exchange (The)

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NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE, THE. English, Air (4/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. The air first appears in London music publisher John Playford's Dancing Master, third edition (1657, p. 124) under the title "New New Exchange," named after a large commercial building in London that competed with the Royal Exchange. However, a previous tune had been called "New Exchange (The)," and to avoid confusion Playford renamed it "The New Royal Exchange" beginning with the Dancing Master [1], fourth edition (1670). The tune was retained in the long-running series of Dancing Master editions through the eighteenth and final edition of 1728 (then published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barlow (Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 127, p. 40. Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 2, 1859; p. 8.

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