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WATERLOO DANCE. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major ('A' and 'C' parts) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC (Trim): AABC (Sumner). In addition to the Thomas Hardy family and Joshua Gibbons mss. (referenced below) the melody appears in a number of 19th century English musicians’ manuscript copybooks, including Thomas Shoosmith (Arlington, Sussex, early 19th c.), James Haslingden (Midlands, 1827), Thomas Lambert (Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, c. 1860), Robert Dale Owen (New Lanark, Scotland, 1826), Richard Pyle (Nether Wallop, Hamptonshire, 1822), William Carke (Feltwell, Norfolk, 1858) and George Spencer (Leeds, west Yorkshire, 1831).

Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music ms. of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner]; the early 19th century Thomas Hardy manuscripts (Dorset) [Trim].

Printed sources: Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; p. 69. Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; No. 182, p. 95. Trim (The Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy), 1990; No. 49.

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