Annotation:Stepney Cakes and Ale
X:1 T:Stepney Cakes and Ale M:9/8 L:1/8 R:Country Dance B: Young – Second Volume of the Dancing Master, 1st edition (1710, V144) K:D D2d c>BA =c3|GEC C2D EGE|D2d c>BA d3|AFD D2G EGE:|| D2a g>fe =c3|GEC C2D EGE|D2a g>fe d3|AFD D2F EGE| afd ecA =c3|GEC C2D EFE|afd ecA d3|AFD D2F EGE|]
STEPNEY CAKES AND ALE. English, Country Dance Tune and Slip Jig (9/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Stepney Cakes and Ale", melody and directions for a country dance, was printed in all four editions of London music publisher John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master (1710-1728, p. 150). It was also published by rival London music publisher John Walsh in hisSecond Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master''''(1719, p. 168).
