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ST. MARGARET'S REEL. English, Triple Hornpipe & Country Dance (3/2 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. "St. Margaret's Reel" is an early 18th century tune for a three-couple country dance set, first published by John Young in his Second Volume of the Dancing Master, appearing in all four editions of that work 1713-1728. It was also printed by rival London music publisher John Walsh in his Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1719, p. 44, also in editions of 1735 and 1749).

St. Margaret’s Hill is in London’s Southwark section, the location of (among other things) the public pillory for several centuries until the late 1700’s.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.

Recorded sources : - Flying Fish FF90564, Bare Necessities - "Take a Dance" (1991).

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