Annotation:Devil or No Devil
Tune properties and standard notation
DEVIL OR NO DEVIL. American (?), Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appears in J. Hewitt's Fashionable Repertory of Country Dances and Waltzes (New York, 1807-1810), and later in dancing master Thomas Wilson's Companion to the Ball Room (London, 1816). A different, duple-time, tune of the same name was printed by John and Michael Paff in their Four New Country Dances in New York in 1799.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Kennedy (Jigs & Quicksteps, Trips & Humours), 1997; No. 26, p. 8.
Recorded sources: