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Transcribed into ABC Music Notation for The Village Music Project by Mike Hicken, Ruairidh Greig, Steve Mansfield
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Transcribed into ABC Music Notation for The Village Music Project by Peter Dunk, Mike Hicken, Ruairidh Greig, Steve Mansfield
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David and John Rutherford were seemingly father and son. David
set up his publishing business under the sign of The Viol and
German Flute in St Martin’s Court, a few yards north of St Paul’s
Cathedral. In business by 1745, he published country dance books,
minuets and instrument tutors.
His yearly volumes of 24 country dances started in 1749 and were
gathered together in volumes of 200 dances, the first volume
spanning 1749 to 1756. The second volume covered 1757 to 1764 and
the third, under John Rutherford’s name, reached to 1772.
Images of the originals can be found on the Vaughan Williams
Memorial Library website
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