Annotation:Pursuit (2) (The)
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PURSUIT [2], THE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody and dance instructions ("Longways for as many as will") appear in all four editions of The Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1718-1728), printed in London by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns. The dance and tune were also included in John Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1718).
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