Annotation:Whitney's Farewell
X:1 T:Whitney's Farewell M:6/4 L:1/8 N:”Longways for as many as will.” B:John Walsh – Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth B: (London, 1740, No. 128) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F F2|F4G2A2B3 (A/B/)|c6F4f2|e4 d2 e2 f3(e/f/)|(g6g4)a2| f2e4f2g4|f2 g4f2|g2e2f2d4c2|(c6 c4)|| a2|g2a2f2e2f2d2|c2d2B2A2B2G2|F2G2A2F2 ?| (B6B4)c2|d4c2d4c2|d4c2d4c2|d2e2f2 f4e2|(f6f4)||
WHITNEY'S FAREWELL. English, Country Dance Tune (6/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody with directions for a country dance first appeared in London publisher Henry Playford's Dancing Master, 9th edition (1695, p. 163). It was retained in the long-running Dancing Master series through the 18th and last edition of 1728 (then published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns). It was also published by rival music publisher John Walsh in his Compleat Country Dancing Master, editions of 1719, 1731 and 1754, and in his Compleat Country Dancing Master, Volume the Fourth (London, c. 1740). The tune can be found in Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, Vol. 2 (London, 1742), a re-publishing by John Johnson of an earlier work by Daniel Wright.