Annotation:Fumbler (1) (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
FUMBLER [1], THE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appears in print in Johnson's Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 5 (London, 1750), and in the periodical London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer (p. 182, 1750). It also appears in Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master, vol. the Fifth (London, 1754).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 48.
Recorded sources: