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Newcastle
Found in Playford_ceolas.abc
from the John Chambers' music books abc collection

X: 78 T:Newcastle M:4/4 L:1/4 Q:200 H:Simpson feels that the surviving tune is not the one which had some H:currency in Elizabethan days. He points out that wrenchings of accent H:are necessary to accomplish the fit of Playford's dance tune to a H:curious fragment of text found in the 18th century Percy folio MS, a H:source of dubious authenticity itself. H:Came you not from H:Newcastle? H:Came yee not there away? &c H:It is quite possible that H:this dance was inspired by William, Duke of Newcastle, a royalist who H:remained in London and bent his interests towards the theatre during H:the interregnum. K:G BdGA|G>AGD|BdGd|eg2 f/2e/2|dBAG|Ee2 d/2c/2|dBA>G|1 G4:|2 G3 e/2f/2|| L:1/8 gfed g3B|A2 g4 A2|G3A B2F2|E2 e8 f2|gfed g3B|A2A2 c3d|e2B2 A3G|G8||
Alternative sources for this tune:
- www.ceolas.org/pub/tunes/abc.tunes/Playford/0077
- trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/LesterBailey/melnets_big_abc_file/09201
- trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/kirby98.fsnet.co.uk/ne/Newcastle_1/0000
- trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/melodeon.net/melnets_big_abc_file/09201
- trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/Playford/Playford_ceolas/0077
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