Annotation:Gold Ring (5) (The)

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GOLD RING [5], THE. English, Country Dance or March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody and country dance directions were printed in London publisher John Johnson's Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (1750, p. 45). It was also entered into the c. 1776-1778 music copybook of fifer Thomas Nixon Jr. [1] (1762-1842), of Framingham, Connecticut, probably to be used as a march. Nixon was a thirteen-year-old who accompanied his father to the battles of Lexington and Concord, and who served in the Continental army in engagements in and around New York until 1780, after which he returned home to build a house in Framingham. The copybook appears to have started by another musician, Joseph Long, and to have come into Nixon’s possession.

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