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NEW WHITEHALL. English, Dance Tune (6/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). "New Whitehall" was first published in Henry Playford's Dancing Master, eleventh edition (1701) and was retained in the long-running series through the eighteenth and last edition of 1728 (then published in London by John Young, heir to the Playford music publishing concerns). It also appears in Walsh & Hare's Compleat Country Dancing Master (1718) and John Walsh's The Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1735 and 1749).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barlow (The Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 460, p. 105.

Recorded sources: Topic Records TSCD550, Brass Monkey - "Flame of Fire" (2004).




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