Whitney's Farewell

X: 1
T: Whitney's Farewell
P: Longways for as many as will
%R: jig
B: "The Compleat Country Dancing-Master" printed by John Walsh, London ca. 1740
S: 6: CCDM1 http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Compleat_Country_Dancing-Master_(Various) V.1 p.89 #128 (178)
B: "The Dancing-Master: Containing Directions and Tunes for Dancing" printed by W. Pearson for John Walsh, London ca. 1709
S: 7: DMDfD http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=89751228 p.163 "P 4"
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: The right edge is rather illegible, and I've done some guessing.
N: A few illegible parts corrected by comparison with http://deriv.nls.uk/dcn30/8975/89753179.30.jpg
N: The dance descriptions seem identical except for trivial differences in spelling and punctuation.
M: 6/4
L: 1/8
K: F
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F2 |\
F4G2 A2B3(A/B/) | c6 F4f2 | e4d2 e2f3(e/f/) | g6- g4a2 |\
g4a2 g4a2 | b4a2 g4f2 | g2e2f2 d4c2 | c6- c4 |]
a2 |\
g2a2f2 e2f2d2 | c2d2B2 A2B2G2 | F2G2A2 F2G2A2 | B6- B4c2 |\
d4c2 d4c2 | d4c2 d4c2 | d2e2f2 f4e2 | f6- f4 |]
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Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/JohnWalsh/alltunes/1676

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