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Thread #84905   Message #1570435
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
25-Sep-05 - 03:42 PM
Thread Name: Who was Sir Roger Decoverley?
Subject: RE: Who was Sir Roger Decoverley?
The relevant passage is quoted at the Fiddlers Companion (see Sorcha's post), together with a good bit of further information precied from various sources. In a box somewhere, I have a collected edition of all the Spectator pieces; but they don't have anything to do with the dance, of course.

The tune appears in the Dancing Master (1695 and thereafter), first in 3/9 and later in 9/4. Notation and dance instructions are at The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium