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"Old Oxford", also known as "Owld Oxfford", "Peace and Plenty" or "Peace and Plenty or Old
Oxford" is an English country dance tune in cut time and D Minor. The parts are played AABB.
"Old Tom of Oxford"
is an extended, major key variant of "Old Oxford".
The tune was first published in Daniel Wright's An Extraordinary Collection of Pleasant and Merry Humours etc. (c. 1713), followed in 1719 by John Young in his Second Volume of the Dancing Master, 3rd edition as a "Longways dance for as many as will" under the title "Peace and Plenty or Old Oxford." Later it was printed in London by John Walsh in his Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1735) and also appears in the 1749 edition of the same work. It was printed in Barnes's English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2 (2005) (appears as "Oakleigh House"), Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master, 3rd edition (1719), Johnson's Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (1740) and Walsh's Third Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1735). It was recorded by Early Music New York on A Colonial Christmas. |