Annotation:Tipling John
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TIPLING JOHN ON THE RIOT NIGHT. English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). C Major (Young): D Major (Thompson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune, with directions for a country dance, was published by John Young in the Second Volume of the Dancing Master, 3rd edition (1718), and in John Walsh'sSecond Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master(1719). It was later published, slightly altered, in 1788 by London music publishers Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson (Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol 5). "Tipling John" was a vehicle for songs in ballad operas and can be heard in Walker's The Quaker's Opera (1728), Grub Street Opera (1731), Welsh Opera (1731) and Genuine Grub (1731).
