Annotation:Four Drunken Maidens (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
FOUR DRUNKEN MAIDENS, THE. AKA - "Four Drunken Maids." English, Reel. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was first published in John Walsh's The Compleat Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (London, 1747, p. 10) as "Four Drunken Maids." It was included in the music manuscript collections of Northumbrian musician William Vickers (1770), and London musician Thomas Hammersley (1790).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 3; No. 527.
Recorded sources: