Annotation:Glory of the North (The)

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X:1 T:Glory of the North, The M:C L:1/8 S:Chappell - Popular Music of the Olden Times (1859) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:C c2c2 c<d e2 | d>ec>d (B2G2) | E>FG>E A>GF>E | D>ED>C C4 :| |: c2 GE c2 GE | c2 GE D3D | E>FG>E (A>G)F>E | (D>E)D>C C4 :||

GLORY OF THE NORTH. English, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). C Major (Chappell): F Major (Doyle): D Major (Offord). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air appears in John Playford's Musick's Recreation on the Lyra-Viol (1652), Playford's Musick's Delight on the Cithren (1666), Elizabeth Rogers' Virginal Book, and Hawkins' Transcripts.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - a broadsheet ballad of c. 1700 [Doyle/Plain Brown].

Printed sources : - Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time, vol. 1), 1859; p. 323. Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 25. Offord (John of the Green: Ye Cheshire Way), 1985; p. 89.

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