X: 1
T: Trip to the Oakes
%R: march, reel
B: Chas & Sam Thompson "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1778", London 1778, p.67 #1
F: http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books/browse-thompsons1778#
Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> (added dance description)
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: C
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G3 A | GFEF | AcBd | c4 :|
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TRIP TO THE OAKES. English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Trip to the Oakes" was also entered in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset, southwest England.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Charles & Samuel Thompson (Twenty Four County Dances for the Year 1778), 1778; p. 67. Thompson (Compleat Coll. of 200 Favourite Country Dances Vol. IV), 1780; No. 133. Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 324, p. 114 (ms. originally dated 1850).
