Annotation:Old Marlborough

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OLD MARLBOROUGH. AKA – "Heel and Toe." English, Morris Dance Tune (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune goes with one of three heel and toe dances collected in the village of Field Town (Leafield), Oxfordshire, England. The first part of the melody is the country dance tune "Yellow Joke (2)," a companion of sorts to its vernerable cousin "Black Joke (1) (The)" (Not the "Yellow Joak" published by Walsh in his third Lancashire collection).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bacon (Handbook of Morris Dances), 1974; p. 160. Sharp & MacIlwaine (Morris Dance Tunes, Set 8), 1912; pp. 2–3 (as "Heel-and-Toe").

Recorded sources:

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