X: 038052
T: RUSTIC DANCE (VF)
O: Walter Neal, V, 1942, JB.
R: reel
B: DTFMTF: Sam Bayard's "Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife" p.38 #52
Z: 2026 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: D
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P: A
"A..."de | f2dd f2dd | gfed cdeg | f2fa gfed | cABc d4 || "B......."a2af b2ba | "C......."g2ge a2ag |
"D....."fefa gfed | cABc d2 |] y"Var."y || "A"Ad || "B"agaf baba || "C"gfge agag | "D"fafa ||
P: B
O: From two fiddler and fifer uncles.
M: 2/4
L: 1/16
df  | f2fd f2ff | gfed "A...."cAA2 | f2fd gfed | cABc d2 || fg | abaf b2ba |
gefg a2ag | fdfd gfed | cABc d2 |] y"Var."y || "A"cAde ||
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% % Local titles: as above, A; March Tune, B. Ordinarily this tune goes under the names (Old) Molly
% % Hare (especially in our South), and, much more widely Fairy Dance (Reel). This latter title is the
% % oldest known to me: in Gow STR, V, p. 19, the tune is called Largo's Fairy Dance, and marked
% % "Nath. Gow" (whether this indicates a claim of authorship or editorship is uncertain). 
% % Occasionally, of course, the piece appears under a title different from these two.
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% % Judging from its occurrences in fife and fiddle books, the air has long been -- and still remains --
% % one of our most popular. Other variants are AVF, p. 74, fife duty tune No. 6; Strube's Drum and
% % Fife Instructor, p. 36; Robinson 2, p. 27; SFQ, VI, p. 5; Joyce 1909, No. 129; Ford, Pp. 30, 71;
% % Thede, p. 8 4 (2nd part only); One Thousand, p.8, 4th; Kerr, I, p.10; 2nd; Sharp; STD, BK. III, pp.2,11;
% % Galwey, No 6; Roche, III, No.138; Cazden, p.28, 2nd; Saar, No.17; Jarman, p.71, No.8;
% % Harding Coll and Harding Orig, No.31; Sym, p.14; O'Malley, p.34; JR, I, p.19; Robbins, No.94;
% % White Ex, p.24, No.2; Karpeles 100, p.32; Kennedy FTB 1, No.32; Lomax ABFS, p.283;
% % Krassen, p.31; Linscott, p.89; Robertson Sturbridge, p.15; (2nd half only).. Breathnach  1977, p.61,
% % asserts that our tune was composed by Niel Gow for the Fife Hunt Ball held in 1802. Whoever its
% % composer was, it remains, understandably, a favorite tune with beginning fiddlers. Another
% % version with the "Fairy Dance" title is in O'Neill DMI, No.986.
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