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Sheet Music for "Graneys Delight"Graneys DelightLongways for as many as will The two men makes two hops of their own sides, the two we does the same at the same time .| Then all four turn single, and back to back to your Partners, and all four turn single :| Then 1. cu. cross over and leads the 2. cu. to the wall .| Then Right and Left quite round :| And so forward to the end. [DMDfD]Book: "The Dancing-Master: Containing Directions and Tunes for Dancing" printed by W. Pearson for John Walsh, London ca. 1709Source: 7: DMDfDTranscription: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>



GRANEY'S DELIGHT. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Graney's Delight" was first printed with directions for a country dance in Henry Playford's Dancing Master, supplement to the 11th edition (1702, p. 11). It was retained in the series of Dancing Master editions through the 14th edition of 1709, after which it was dropped.


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Printed sources : - Barlow (Complete Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; No. 485, p. 110. Elias Howe (Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7), Boston, 1880-1882, p. 612.






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