Annotation:Dance with Ease
Tune properties and standard notation
DANCE WITH EASE. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The melody was printed in Charles and Samuel Thompson's third country dance collection (London, 173). It also appears in the music manuscript books of fiddlers John and William Pitt Turner (Norwich, Conn., 1788), and flute-playing Ensign Thomas Molyneaux, 6th Regiment (Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1788).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 39.
Recorded sources: