Annotation:Female Sailor (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
FEMALE SAYLOR/SAILOR, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Dorian. Standard tuning. AAB (Barnes): AABB' (Johnson). The tune dates from c. 1706, according to Johnson and Barnes.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 1), 1986. Johnson (Twenty-Eight Country Dances as Done at the New Boston Fair), vol. 8, 1988; p. 4.
Recorded sources: